Watch out AMD – Nvidia could boost GPU performance by up to 30% with AI
Nvidia has plans to optimize its GeForce graphics drivers using artificial intelligence to ensure that games run faster, going by the latest from the GPU grapevine.
This comes from CapFrameX on Twitter (via VideoCardz(opens in new tab)), a known source of leaks and developer of a utility that deals in frame times capture and analysis.
[Rumor] Nvidia is working on AI optimized drivers. Release maybe this year (Q1). ▶️ Up to 30% more performance▶️ Average improvement ~10%▶️ No info about specific genTake this with a grain of salt. If true Nvidia drivers will be real «fine wine». pic.twitter.com/QGTUL9iK7NJanuary 8, 2023
The AI-powered optimizations to boost performance would vary in their effects from game to game, naturally, with the leaker asserting that the average improvement would be in the ballpark of 10%. However, some titles might see benefits of up to 30% in terms of faster frame rates.
Obviously, we need to be skeptical around this claim, and indeed CapFrameX notes that we should apply a grain of salt here (we’d go for a substantially greater quantity of grains than that, mind).
This could be huge if it is indeed true, but as it stands, the claim is a pretty vague one. We don’t know how the AI will work and very little info is provided, although later in the Twitter thread the leaker does reply to a question about what the AI would be optimizing – which would be, we quote: “Instructions, throughput, hardware utilization, threading, settings…”
Pretty much everything, then, or at least a broad sweep of facets. And presumably the AI improvement of drivers would be a continual process, meaning Nvidia drivers would age nicely, the “fine wine” effect (referenced in the tweet), a label traditionally applied to AMD’s drivers.
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