The new NVIDIA driver was tested in games: There is an increase in FPS, but not everywhere

On October 12, NVIDIA released the Game Ready driver version 522. 25, "GeForce RTX 4090", "Презрение", "Сказка о чуме: Реквием", "Неизведанное: Наследие воров", "Рыцари Готэма".

However, the manufacturer also prepared a surprise for the owners of the GeForce RTX 30 series, providing, in his own words, an increase in the speed of work in a number of games when using DirectX 12.

NVIDIA announced the following performance improvements:Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - up to 24% in 1080pBattlefield 2042 - up to 7% in 1080pBorderlands 3 - up to 8% in 1080pCall of Duty: Vanguard - up to 12% in 4KControl - up to 6% in 4KCyberpunk 2077 - up to 20% in 1080pF1 22 - up to 17% in 4KFar Cry 6 - up to 5% in 1440pForza Horizon 5 - up to 8% in 1080pHorizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition - up to 8% in 4KRed Dead Redemption 2 - up to 7% in 1080pShadow of the Tomb Raider - up to 5% in 1080pTom Clancy's The Division 2 - up to 5% in 1080pWatch Dogs: Legion - up to 9% in 1440pust a day, the first user results of launching games with a new driver began to appear on the network.

Blogger MxBenchmarkPC compared the performance of 517 drivers. 48 and 522.

25 in five games at 1440p resolution with DLSS 2. 4.

12 in Quality/Balanced modes, enabled ray tracing and ultra-settings. The test was conducted on Core i7-10700F and GeForce RTX 3080.

In Cyberpunk 2077, Spider-Man: Remastered and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, the frame rate has hardly changed.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human showed an increase of about 5 FPS, and in Battlefield 2042 the frame rate increased by about the same 5 FPS or slightly more.

Another channel, Games Choices, also tested the 522 driver. 25, but already on GeForce RTX 3060.

All games were launched in 1080p. In most cases, there were no improvements in working with the new driver.

The most noticeable increase was shown by Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, where the frame rate became about 5-10 FPS higher.

Forza Horizon 4 has added about 5 FPS, whereas in Far Cry 6, on the contrary, performance has slightly decreased, although the difference was less than 5 FPS.