Hoping that you enjoyed the analysis of the GeForce 185.20 and still crave for more driver deathmatch, we’re now back with a vengeance and a trio of unsuspecting victims ready to rumble for our pleasure and the right to serve our GeForce graphics cards. Today's 'victims' are the GeForce 185.20, the very unofficial beta that had its 5 minutes of fame due to the addition of ambient occlusion, and two WHQL certified releases, the GeForce 181.20, and GeForce 181.22. Coming together and shortly after the debut of the GeForce GTX 285 and 295, the GeForce 181.20 and 181.22 respectively have support for the two new cards, as well as everything down to the GeForce 6 line-up, with the latter driver also including the version 9.09.0010 PhysX software.
To determine the FPS-pumping capabilities of the three drivers we'll have them go through a series of tests consisting of DirectX 9 and 10 synthetic benchmarks and games, including the DICE-developed and PhysX-loving first-person action game Mirror's Edge which comes to take the place of the officially dumped 3DMark06. No point in shedding a tear for what we loved and lost though as there are drivers to torture, or test. Fire it up!
Page 01: Introduction
Page 02: Test setup
Page 03: 3DMark Vantage
Page 04: Devil May Cry 4
Page 05: Unreal Tournament III
Page 06: Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Page 07: Crysis Warhead
Page 08: Far Cry 2
Page 09: Call of Duty: World at War
Page 10: Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Page 11: Mirror's Edge
Page 12: Conclusion
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