Gure3D heeft een paar Quake III en 3DMark2000 benchmarks gedraaid op de vrijdag uitgelekte Detonator 6.26 beta drivers van nVidia. In vergelijking met de 6.18 drivers blijken de nieuwe drivers in de meeste gevallen net een procentje sneller te zijn. De resultaten zijn niet bijzonder opwindend, maar het is toch leuk om te zien dat oude hardware sneller wordt met nieuwe drivers. De 6.26 drivers blijken bovendien behoorlijk stabiel te zijn:
Friday the 14th of August there was another Detonator drivers leak. This time with build 6.26 I decided to download and install them and Quite frankly I was impressed, the previous 6.18 drivers had shown a serious increase of performance. The new 6.26 promise a lot. Again there is a small increase in performance, not a lot .. but still noticeable.[...] Stability - the previous 6.18 drivers had major bugs in the property-code. A lot of bugs have been reported to me about the fact the someone entered the display properties followed by a small software crash. This problem seems to be solved. Also the fast writes issue should be solved in this driver release. (Not confirmed though). In the previous drivers the Detonator drivers saw KX133 and KT133 chipsets as the same ID while data exchange was totally different, that's why so many problems have been reported with the new kt133 chipset. This should be fixed.