In the shadow of the initial availability for the monstrous RTX 4090, there is also good news for those with older graphics cards from the chipset developer
If you want additional performance for your computer system that is based on graphics processing from NVIDIA, you have two main options at this point: try and find yourself an available GeForce RTX 4090 at prices that start from NIS 7,100 and up – or simply download the device manager in the new version 522.25 which adds the support Official in the way of the first Ada Lovelace and also claims to improve immeasurably the performance of previous cards in some of the most popular titles.
According to the publication on the company’s official website, the device manager includes a number of improvements for modern DirectX 12 titles designed to reduce the bottleneck received from the main processing unit, thus managing to provide a double-digit percentage improvement in some cases compared to previous device drivers – based on stationary and mobile RTX 3000 cards (and perhaps also previous generations, although there is no direct reference to them) and without any payment of course.
In several graphs published alongside the announcement of the version, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3090 Ti models appear with a performance improvement of between 3.5 percent and 24.5 percent, depending on the title and the specific model – While in most cases it is precisely the senior RTX 3090 Ti that benefits from the biggest addition, probably thanks to its large dynamic memory that plays a more significant role when managing to lower the CPU overhead. The list of games that receive an improvement includes 14 titles, including names like Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Red Dead Redemption 2, and in most cases the maximum improvement is at a relatively modest 1080p resolution where the dependence on the central processor of the system is increased – but in some cases there is a greater improvement Specifically in 4K or 1440p so that in practice all consumers have a good reason to download and install these drivers for themselves.
In addition to the improvements to existing titles, the drivers add official support for four new high-profile titles that have landed in the last few days or will land in the near future – Scorn, which offers a frightening and unique horror world that seems to be taken straight from the previous mind of the famous artist HR Giger (who created the Xenomorph for The Eighth Passenger film series, among others), the stealth-horror game A Plague Tale: Requiem that will try to continue the surprisingly great success of A Plague Tale: Innocence from several years ago, Gotham Knights from the studio that brought us the Batman Arkham trilogy and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection from Sony and Naughty Dog that finally bring Nathan Drake to the PC world.
We are reminded from time to time that software support for hardware is just as important (and maybe even more) than the quality of the hardware itself, and in this context there is no doubt that NVIDIA’s capabilities are at the cutting edge of the world of graphics processing, despite AMD’s admirable attempts to improve its lineup since product launch Her Adrenalin. Let’s hope that the third player in the field, Intel, will be able to improve and upgrade itself in this sector already in the near future.
