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NVIDIA Forceware 61.11 Drivers

By on May 3, 2004 1:22 pm

NVIDIA has a new driver for the GeForce 6800 series — version 61.11.
Compared to the 60.72 driver, this new driver features:

  • Around 5% boost in Aquamark
  • Around 5% boost in X2 performance
  • Around 5% boost in Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness performance
  • Around 10% boost to Call of Duty performance
  • Over 20% improvement in Far Cry performance (fixed a z cull bug)

NVIDIA has officially listed the GeForce 6800 GT in their INF file. GeForce
6800 GT will be clocked at 350Mhz and features 16 pipelines. The card will be
equipped with 256MB GDDR3 clocked at 1Ghz. The price will be US$ 399 and
available at end of May.

NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_0040.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra"
NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_0041.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800"
NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_0045.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT"
NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_004E.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000"

The latest Forceware 61.11 drivers for GeForce 6800 series has substantially
improve the gaming scores. The 3DMark2003 Pixel Shader 2.0 test revealed that
the Forceware 61.11 improves the Pixel shader performance of the GeForce
6800 further that leads to better overall 3DMark2003 and Aquamark 3 scores.
Current games like Tomb Raider and Far Cry that makes heavy use of PS 2.0 have
noticeably improvements too. Even Call of Duty based on good old Quake III engine
saw some nice performance boost.

NVIDIA has a new driver for the GeForce 6800 series — version 61.11.
Compared to the 60.72 driver, this new driver features:

  • Around 5% boost in Aquamark
  • Around 5% boost in X2 performance
  • Around 5% boost in Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness performance
  • Around 10% boost to Call of Duty performance
  • Over 20% improvement in Far Cry performance (fixed a z cull bug)

Forceware 61.11 vs 60.72

 
1024×768
1280×1024
1600×1200
60.72 61.11 60.72 61.11 60.72 61.11
3DMark03 11869 11943 9418 9501 7692 7713
3DMark03 PS2.0 155.3 160.9 115.2 119 91.5 94.4
Aquamark 3 64.1 65.2 58.2 60.6 52 55.4
Tomb Raider : AOD 77.9 78.3 56.9 59.5 41.7 43.2
Call Of Duty 145 151.2 142 147.5 137.5 141.7
Far Cry 57.8 66.2 52.6 65.7 43.2 60.4

  • Intel Pentium 4 3.2E "Prescott"
  • EPoX 4PDA5+ (i865G)
  • 2 x 256MB DDR500 SDRAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra (400/1100Mhz)

The latest Forceware 61.11 drivers for GeForce 6800 series has substantially
improve the gaming scores. The 3DMark2003 Pixel Shader 2.0 test revealed that
the Forceware 61.11 improves the Pixel shader performance of the GeForce
6800 further that leads to better overall 3DMark2003 and Aquamark 3 scores.
Current games like Tomb Raider and Far Cry that makes heavy use of PS 2.0 have
noticeably improvements too. Even Call of Duty based on good old Quake III engine
saw some nice performance boost.

NVIDIA has officially listed the GeForce 6800 GT in their INF file. GeForce
6800 GT will be clocked at 350Mhz and features 16 pipelines. The card will be
equipped with 256MB GDDR3 clocked at 1Ghz. The price will be US$ 399 and
available at end of May.

NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_0040.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra"
NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_0041.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800"
NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_0045.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT"
NVIDIA_NV40.DEV_004E.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000"

 



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