Hands-on with GTX 200 WHQL drivers from NVIDIA

There has been a lot of talk about the new WHQL drivers and how these drivers can give the newly launched GTX 200 series of cards are big performance increase, with this in mind, Tweak Town have decided to give the GTX 200 WHQL drivers a full hands-on review over 14 pages.

In their final thoughts they found these new drivers not live up to what many are thinking, they said NVIDIA may release new drivers that increase the performance of the new GTX 200 series of cards but the new WHQL drivers are not them.

This is what Tweak Town said in their summery “Well, that wasn’t anywhere near as exciting as I had hoped. Spec wise, it seemed extremely possible that we could expect an increase in performance from the GTX 280, but clearly that didn’t happen. I don’t doubt for a second over the coming months NVIDIA will release new drivers that increase the performance of the new GTX 200 series of cards, but this isn’t it.

We will be keeping up with the performance of the GTX 280 and the driver development over the coming months to see what NVIDIA pull out of the hat. While I would normally write some long-winded final thoughts about the drivers, I’m going to wrap it up quickly because I just got word that the NDA for the HD 4850 has been bought forward.

So let’s wrap this up nice and quick. The GTX 280 is still disappointing me and I’m mega excited about the HD 4850. The End! – Look out for our HD 4850 content in the coming hours!”

Read the 14 page review for the full results and charts of the performance.