nvidia 436.02 drivers, draws inspiration from AMD, Intel

[porina]

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The first of the Release 435 family, the 436.02 driver adds and revises several features, including GPU integer scaling, a new sharpening filter for NVIDIA’s freestyling system, a rework of their pre-rendered frame limiter (now called Low Latency Mode), as well as 30-bit color for OpenGL applications, and the usual suite of game fixes and performance improvements.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14765/nvidia-releases-geforce-436-02-driver-integer-scaling-and-more

 

Integer scaling is a feature Intel have been talking about, and will be introduced in their next gen iGPUs. So with this driver, nvidia are jumping ahead of them in this. This feature could be beneficial for older games where sharp pixel scaling is preferred over the blurry version we typically get.

 

Nvidia's new sharpening filter is likely a response to AMD's reveal with the Navi cards. Apparently there was already a sharpening option in the Freestyle function of the drivers, but the new filter is lower performance impact. Think I'll wait for the usual sites to do both image quality and performance comparisons before drawing any conclusions on this one.

 

And finally there is an Low Latency Mode going against AMD's Anti-Lag. According to Anandtech, this isn't necessarily a new feature, but a rebranded one to make it more obvious as to what it does. Again, I'll leave it to other sites to test these functions against each other.

[GrockleTD]

... well that’s annoying. Just installed drivers for my folding rig last night and now I need to update them.

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

... well that’s annoying. Just installed drivers for my folding rig last night and now I need to update them.

Generally a bad idea. Keeping your drivers "up to date" for folding purposes only is generally not wise as often these optimizations only benefit games, while having the sometimes opposite affect on compute/folding systems. 

[ivan134]

17 minutes ago, porina said:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14765/nvidia-releases-geforce-436-02-driver-integer-scaling-and-more

 

Integer scaling is a feature Intel have been talking about, and will be introduced in their next gen iGPUs. So with this driver, nvidia are jumping ahead of them in this. This feature could be beneficial for older games where sharp pixel scaling is preferred over the blurry version we typically get.

 

Nvidia's new sharpening filter is likely a response to AMD's reveal with the Navi cards. Apparently there was already a sharpening option in the Freestyle function of the drivers, but the new filter is lower performance impact. Think I'll wait for the usual sites to do both image quality and performance comparisons before drawing any conclusions on this one.

 

And finally there is an Low Latency Mode going against AMD's Anti-Lag. According to Anandtech, this isn't necessarily a new feature, but a rebranded one to make it more obvious as to what it does. Again, I'll leave it to other sites to test these functions against each other.

 

[porina]

2 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

 

Haven't watched it, can't do so at moment. How about a tldw?

 

The test to watch out for is when they try this new driver function against that. I wasn't keen on the example during the navi reveal as it looked over processed like someone just found the sharpen filter in photoshop for the first time and turned it up to 11.

[SolarNova]

currently the driver is unavailable.

[GrockleTD]

9 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Generally a bad idea. Keeping your drivers "up to date" for folding purposes only is generally not wise as often these optimizations only benefit games, while having the sometimes opposite affect on compute/folding systems. 

Officially it is only for folding

[TVwazhere]

Just now, GrockleTD said:

Officially it is only for folding

Then I would ignore updating your drivers. I haven't knowingly updated mine in Project ITNOS since 2018. 

[porina]

4 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

currently the driver is unavailable.

Seems to be up to me:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/150300/en-us

 

[SolarNova]

2 minutes ago, porina said:

Seems to be up to me:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/150300/en-us

 

when u actualy hit download it goes to a 404 not found.

Older drivers still download fine.

[GrockleTD]

5 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Then I would ignore updating your drivers. I haven't knowingly updated mine in Project ITNOS since 2018. 

Officially

[Princess Luna]

What happened to AI Tensor Core powered DLSS being the holy grail? Now they are implementing sharpening filter just like AMD lol

[porina]

4 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

when u actualy hit download it goes to a 404 not found.

Just tried, confirmed. Guess they forgot to upload it to the right place.

2 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

What happened to AI Tensor Core powered DLSS being the holy grail? Now they are implementing sharpening filter just like AMD lol

To me they're doing different things, even if they overlap in use case. You could have DLSS+sharpening.

[RejZoR]

The "Freestyle" thing is absolutely worthless. Any game I've tried it wasn't supported. Not to mention you need to use stupid NVIDIA Experience app... Would much prefer if sharpening was integral part of drivers, like we used to have "Sharpness" slider next to color, contrast and saturation sliders.

 

And the low latency mode, I alway sforget to set the prerendered frames thing. Maybe I won't now that they'll call it something else...

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, porina said:

To me they're doing different things, even if they overlap in use case. You could have DLSS+sharpening. 

Yes it could be so, it's just funny that they tried so hard to push DLSS and after the AMD's Sharpening produced better results both on performance and graphically than it on Metro Exodus which has the best implementation of DLSS one can only wonder what went wrong...

[Mira Yurizaki]

6 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

What happened to AI Tensor Core powered DLSS being the holy grail? Now they are implementing sharpening filter just like AMD lol

I don't think image sharpening would help with things like jaggies or other resolution dependent effects.

[flibberdipper]

While the low-latency thing is neat, I was a lot more hyped about the supposed performance increase in FH4. And for once I think they actually pulled it off. Between the low-latency dealio and whatever they did for FH4, I definitely noticed that it had far less frame pacing issues and it stuck to 60FPS the entire time (normally it'd drop to the mid-high 50s seemingly at random).

[Jurrunio]

Maybe it's taken back when reports say they cant get the driver without Geforce Experience?

[xAcid9]

Did they take AMD FidelityFX code from Github and modify it little bit?  

[Fire2box]

33 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Generally a bad idea. Keeping your drivers "up to date" for folding purposes only is generally not wise as often these optimizations only benefit games, while having the sometimes opposite affect on compute/folding systems. 

I'm folding sometimes and any nvdia driver I've tried with my Ryzen 3000 series CPU keeps causing BSOD. 

 

Rock\Me\Hardplace

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, xAcid9 said:

Did they take AMD FidelityFX code from Github and modify it little bit?  

If they didn't want someone else to use it, they wouldn't put it on GitHub :P

[porina]

5 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Yes it could be so, it's just funny that they tried so hard to push DLSS and after the AMD's Sharpening produced better results both on performance and graphically than it on Metro Exodus which has the best implementation of DLSS one can only wonder what went wrong...

To me DLSS is more about trying to give the missing detail while upscaling, whereas sharpening is about visually enhancing whatever detail is there.

 

I see echos of my digital photography days here, it's rather easy to create punchy images by increasing contrast (sharpening may be in form of local contrast enhancement) but beyond a point it becomes unnatural. That's how I saw the samples in the navi reveal and backing off improve it to me. Similar tricks can be done with saturation, or vibrancy. When you then compare a "natural" looking image, it struggles to stand out amongst the more heavily processed images. 

[Fire2box]

24 minutes ago, porina said:

Seems to be up to me:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/150300/en-us

 

404 not found for me

[ivan134]

6 minutes ago, porina said:

To me DLSS is more about trying to give the missing detail while upscaling, whereas sharpening is about visually enhancing whatever detail is there.

 

I see echos of my digital photography days here, it's rather easy to create punchy images by increasing contrast (sharpening may be in form of local contrast enhancement) but beyond a point it becomes unnatural. That's how I saw the samples in the navi reveal and backing off improve it to me. Similar tricks can be done with saturation, or vibrancy. When you then compare a "natural" looking image, it struggles to stand out amongst the more heavily processed images. 

Watch the video when you have time. No point in arguing this

[xAcid9]

16 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

If they didn't want someone else to use it, they wouldn't put it on GitHub

I didn't say they couldn't.  

13 minutes ago, Fire2box said:

404 not found for me

Same for me. File is down, brace yourself for 436.xx hotfix for hotfix and hotfix. 

 

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ManuelGuzmanNV

 

NVIDIA has found a bug in our recent 436.02 driver posting, causing it to install GeForce Experience even if the user selects not to install it. We are pausing the driver download from the NVIDIA website while we fix the issue. Users attempting to download the driver from the NVIDIA website will receive a “404 – Not Found” message when attempting to download. If you have installed the driver and wish to uninstall GeForce Experience, you can do so from the ‘Window System Settings: Add or Remove programs’. We apologize for the error and hope to have the fixed driver re-posted soon.