Nvidia's new Gamescom driver promises better performance and prettier pixels

Not content with tracing all the rays in Minecraft and lots of other big games like Call of Duty and Watch Dogs Legion this week, Nvidia also released a new GeForce Game Ready driver yesterday that promises up to 23% better performance in some of today’s big multiplayer games, plus sharper pixels in retro games (see FTL: Faster Than Light running in 4K up the top there). Or at least it will if you’ve got yourself an Nvidia RTX or GTX 16-series card like our best graphics card champ the GTX 1660 Ti, because a lot of the driver’s new benefits are all tied up with Nvidia’s new Turing architecture, leaving older graphics card owners in a bit of a fuzz.

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