#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 INSTALL#
#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 DRIVERS#
#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 DRIVER#
#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 UPGRADE#
#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 FOR WINDOWS 10#

#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 DRIVER#

While installing the graphics driver allows the system to properly recognize the chipset and the card manufacturer, updating the video driver can bring about various changes. Browse to the folder where you extracted the driver and click Ok About Graphics Drivers:

#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 DRIVERS#

If you already have the driver installed and want to update to a newer version got to 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'ħ. Choose to select the location of the new driver manually and browse to the folder where you extracted the driverĥ. Right click on the hardware device you wish to update and choose Update Driver SoftwareĤ.

#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 FOR WINDOWS 10#

Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, choose Manage and then find Device Manager in the left panel), or right click on Start Menu for Windows 10 and select Device Managerģ. In order to manually update your driver, follow the steps below (the next steps):ġ.

#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 INSTALL#

Take into consideration that is not recommended to install the driver on Operating Systems other than stated ones.

#UPGRADE NVIDIA GTX 680 UPGRADE#

If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version. For those who wonder why we didn’t just downclock the Nvidia cards to stock speeds, well we could have done that but the Turbo boosting baked into Kepler cards means no two cards will perform the same even when clocked at the same speed.The package provides the installation files for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Graphics Driver version 26. In short, Nvidia’s results have a 10%~ or more advantage than the AMD ones due to the factory overclocked cards tested. This was not done intentionally to favour Nvidia but these were the only non-reference cards we had to hand, and we only use non-reference cards as we want to avoid inconsistencies associated with thermal throttling that AMD and Nvidia cards both experience. For the AMD tests we used two cards that were close to, if not at, stock speeds. Why? Because for our Nvidia tests we used Gigabyte’s GHz Edition GTX 780 Ti and MSI’s Lightning Edition GTX 680, both of these are heavily overclocked Nvidia cards out of the box. One thing I would like to note before we dive into the results is that you shouldn’t use these results to compare the GTX 680 to the HD 7970, or the R9 290X to the GTX 780 Ti. If you read our equivalent AMD driver analysis you will see that the story with the HD 7970 and R9 290X is nearly identical. This means the GTX 680 will show greater performance improvements compared to the GTX 780 Ti. Of course with the GTX 780 Ti being based on the same Kepler 28nm architecture as the GTX 680 by the time the GTX 780 Ti was released many of the largest performance optimisations had already been made for the Kepler architecture. This means that the GTX 680 has had 2.5 years of driver updates while the GTX 780 Ti hasn’t even had a year yet. The story with Nvidia is a similar one to AMD, both the flagships of last two generations are based on the same microarchitecture which is, in Nvidia’s case, 28nm Kepler. The latest driver package for both these Nvidia graphics cards is 340.52. We used the 331.65 package since this supports the GTX 780 Ti and is identical to the unavailable 331.70 package. The GTX 780 Ti launched on the 7th of November 2013 with the special press driver package 331.70, although this was identical to the 331.65 package except with “official” GTX 780 Ti support. At launch the Nvidia GTX 680 shipped with Nvidia Forceware 301.10 drivers. Nvidia’s GTX 680 launched on March 22nd 2012, exactly four months after AMD’s HD 7970 launched. This means for both graphics cards we will be testing two scenarios on identical test systems, the first scenario is with the drivers the graphics cards shipped with at launch and the second is the most current driver release for the graphics cards at the time of doing the testing. We will be taking Nvidia’s last two GTX series flagships, the GTX 680 for the GTX 600 series and the GTX 780 Ti for the GTX 700 series, and comparing their launch drivers to the current latest drivers. Now that we’ve done AMD it is of course time to do the same for Nvidia.

We compared each flagship card’s launch drivers to the latest drivers and calculated the improvements in a variety of games and benchmarks. Just over a month ago we published our AMD driver analysis article looking at the progress two generations of AMD flagship GPUs, the HD 7970 and R9 290X, had made with driver updates.

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