Gameready driver, nvidia prepares new drivers for directx 12

Nvidia knows that it has an Achilles heel and they are those games that are designed to take advantage of DirectX 12. For this reason, it is preparing new drivers called GameReady Driver, which promise to improve performance in games under DirectX 12.

GameReady Driver promises to improve performance under DirectX 12

In no case does it look like a dramatic performance upgrade (we weren't expecting miracles either) but it does gain a handful of FPS that never hurt.

At the moment the list of games that are going to benefit from these new controllers seems very short but in titles like Hitman or Rise of the Tomb Raider, we see a performance gain of between 23 to 33%. In other games like The Division, we see a profit of just 4%.

These Nvidia drivers come to be a fix for the weak point of the GTX 9xx and GTX 10xx graphics cards, which is the asynchronous computing that came along with DirectX 12 and where AMD has an advantage with its Polaris architecture.

GameReady Driver Results

The tests were conducted with an Intel Core i7 5930K processor with 16GB of DDR4 memory and a GTX 1080 4K graphics card.

GameReady controllers will be out just as we prepare for the imminent launch of the GTX 1080 Ti, so it should be available in the next few hours or days from the official Nvidia site. GameReady is uniquely prepared for the Pascal architecture, so GTX 9xx graphics cards are unfortunately not going to experience any performance gains.