Ace's Hardware heeft een aantal opmerkingen geplaatst over de 3.62 Athlon GeForce drivers. De nieuwe drivers blijken stabieler te zijn dan versie 3.48 en halen een hogere framerate op lage resoluties:
The Athlon Geforce Drivers do not decrease or increase performance significantly compared to the previous 3.48 drivers. The big difference is that you can not run any DirectX game with the 3.48 drivers without locking up your Athlon based computer. I tried Expandable, TA: Kingdoms 2.0 and Falcon 4.0 and all benchmark crashed. Quake 3 (1.09) and Unreal Tournament run fine on the Athlon system with both drivers.With the new 3.62 Geforce drivers (Courtesy RIVA3D ) for the Athlon, all games work perfectly. A few benchmarks to show that the Geforce 3.62 driver for Athlon systems does not decrease performance :
(Athlon 700, Fester motherboard, AMD AGP miniport 4.45, ASUS V6600 Geforce 256 (120/166))
While higher resolutions run a bit slower, lower resolutions run faster. Not really a sacrifice for the significantly increased stability that the 3.62 driver offers.
Quake 3 nVidia 3.48 Driver nVidia 3.62 Driver Fast 89.7 92 Normal 81.5 88.6 High Quality 62.2 61.1 HQ 1024x768 39.7 39