To see what kind of performance enhancements NVIDIA’s ForceWare 52.16 drivers bring, we loaded up ShaderMark 2.0 with anti-detect mode enabled. As you can see, shader performance has increased substantially in some cases with the new drivers across the board.
While the new Detonator driver does expose one additional test, there are still quite a few functions within ShaderMark 2.0 that the GeForce FX cards are still incapable of performing, the most notable tests being HDR.