Nvidia supercharges GeForce DirectX 12 performance with new Game Ready driver

When it comes to performance, most people think that Radeon graphics cards hold an edge over Nvidia's GeForce army in DirectX 12 games on account of the dedicated asynchronous shaders lurking inside AMD's hardware. That's never been the universal truth that some people think it is--async compute is just one, not-always-utilized feature of DX12--and today Nvidia's busting the myth even more with a driver update designed to supercharge GeForce performance in DirectX 12 games. "By refining the code in our own driver, and working side-by-side with game developers, Nvidia has delivered performance increases by an average of 16% across DirectX 12 titles," senior PR manager Brian Burke said in a press release. The stated performance increases in Hitman and Rise of the Tomb Raider are the sort of massive leaps you'd normally see by upgrading your graphics card, say, from the GeForce GTX 1080 to the ferocious new GTX 1080 Ti. Speaking of which, the DirectX 12 improvements were present in the review drivers Nvidia sent to the press for GTX 1080 Ti testing.