'A comprehensive software portfolio is required in order to take advantage of next-gen hardware features. The 451.48 drivers unlock the whole suite - some of which are currently exclusive to NVIDIA hardware - for gamers, developers and content creators. Now the full suite of API features, many of which took their cues from GeForce RTX capabilities, are supported by GeForce RTX, TITAN RTX and Quadro RTX GPUs, across consumer, pro-sumer and professional markets. Hardware features that debuted in NVIDIA's Turing architecture set the stage for Microsoft's cutting-edge DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API.

Windows 7 & 10 (64-bit) are both supported, and they're compatible with hardware as far back as the GTX 600-series (Kepler).Ĭomprehensive DirectX 12 Ultimate Support GeForce GPU owners can download the 451.48 drivers via the GeForce Experience app or directly from /drivers after selecting their hardware and OS configuration. These are reproduced in the release notes below. Plus, ‘one-click’ setting optimisation once again takes some deserved limelight with a dozen games newly added to the already extensive database.Īs with any major new driver release NVIDIA have incorporated a number of fixes for previously known issues in the driver stack, as well as identify a brace of new issues to be addressed at a later date. The Game Ready and Studio 451.48 Drivers also add G-SYNC Compatible certification modes for a selection of monitors from vendors including AOC, ASUS and Samsung.

In the absence on comparable hardware from their competition, NVIDIA have become the sole GPU manufacturer with unequivocal support for DX12 Ultimate from both a driver and architecture standpoint. NVIDIA have today released a new set of both Game Ready and Studio Drivers that deliver full support for the Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate feature stack including DirectX RayTracing (DXR), variable rate shading (VRS), mesh shaders and sampler feedback).

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