Windows 10 is due to arrive at some point this summer so the wheels are already in motion. NVIDIA has gone ahead with the release of its first beta graphics drivers for Windows 10, both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. This is a step towards future DirectX 12 support for NVIDIA graphics cards, DirectX 12 was announced at GDC 2014 and it will bring an improvement in graphics performance and energy efficiency as compared to DirectX 11.
NVIDIA’s entire lineup will obviously not be able to support all DirectX 12 features but it’s a good step on the company’s part to provide early support for the next iteration of Windows.
It’s not common to see driver availability before a new iteration of Windows moves into “release candidate” stage so NVIDIA is certainly doing something out of the ordinary here by releasing new drivers for the 600, 700 and 900 series GeForce graphics cards.
Supported models from the GeForce 900 series include the GTX TITAN X, GTX 980, 970 and the 960, among many others from the 700 and 600 series.
Those who were running preview builds of Windows 10 with NVIDIA graphics cards previously had to use unsupported or stock drivers which caused issues with performance, they’ll certainly be glad that NVIDIA has released beta drivers so soon.
The entire list along with the respective drivers is now available for download from NVIDIA’s website.
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