GeForce 378.78 drivers: increased DX12 perf, much more

NVIDIA GeForce graphics card owners will want to grab the new GeForce 378.78 WHQL drivers.

Anthony Garreffa

Gaming Editor

Published Mar 9, 2017 10:46 PM CST
Updated Nov 3, 2020 11:56 AM CST

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NVIDIA unleashed a virtually perfect high-end/enthusiast graphics card with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition, but the new GeForce 378.78 WHQL drivers are an important step, too.

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NVIDIA says that there are over 500 engineering years of work in the new GeForce 378.78 WHQL drivers, with DX12 performance boosts in many games - with up to 33% more performance on offer for Rise of the Tomb Raider. 368.25 drivers were used as a comparison, with the following performance improvements in these games:

Ashes of the Singularity - 9%
Gears of War 4 - 10%
Hitman - 23%
Rise of the Tomb Raider - 33%
Tom Clancy's The Division- 4%

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Anthony Garreffa

Gaming Editor

Anthony joined TweakTown in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of tech products. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.

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