Rumour: PS4 Receiving Massive Performance Boost From Team ICE [UPDATED}

[Zekkyou]

rolltide101x said:

Zekkyou said:

So you mean to tell me that when the TR driver released soon after launch and my old comps fps jumped from 35 to 55, it pulled the power right out of its butt? O: Good to know o/

Really though, i'd agree nvidea tend to over promise but that doesn't stop their drivers being effective. If a single one can see a performance boost, i fail to see how hard it is to believe several years of refinement can deliver results.

Anyway, your initial comment was that no software is going to boost performance by any meaningful amount. When considering engines, drivers, refinement of pre existing development tools and changed functions, it's obvious software is a pretty big deal :p

Optimizing engines is quite a bit to do with performance. But drivers are very little to do with it, the drivers that are there in the first place are not just "junk" but they do optimize them to give you a 2-3% increase here and there which makes little to no difference to the end user. Also if you jumped from 35 to 55 FPS in a game that game had a "problem" with the GPU as I said in my other post. That does happen it is nothing to do with increasing the "performance" of the GPU.

If you say so