Nvidia Supercharges Geforce Directx 12 Performance With New Game Ready Driver

WHEN IT COMES to performance, most people think that Radeon graphics cards hold an edge over Nvidia’s GeForce army in DirectX 12 games on account of the dedicated asynchronous shaders lurking inside AMD’s hardware. That’s never been the universal truth that some people think it is—async compute is just one, not-always utilized feature of DX12—and now Nvidia’s busting the myth even more with a driver update designed to supercharge GeForce performance in DirectX 12 games.

- Brad Chacos

“By refining the code in our own driver, and working side-by-side with game developers, Nvidia has delivered performance increases by an average of 16% across DirectX 12 titles,” senior PR manager Brian Burke said in a press release. Here are some specific examples Nvidia passed along:

- Ashes of the Singularity—9%

- Gears of War 4—10%

- Hitman—23% 

- Rise of the Tomb Raider—33%

- Tom Clancy’s The Division—4%