Just out of curiousity I just did a test with the latest Alienware GPU Driver 332.70 (which is a year old unfortunately) vs the latest 344.75 driver from nVIDIA.
I know OEMs cannot keep up with the pace that nVIDIA updates their drivers but having no updates since one year for a gaming laptop is pretty sad. As much as I hate ASUS, they at least have a dedicated drivers page for mobile GPUs drivers update which have the ASUS enhancements (if any)
I really hope DELL can give more attention to GPU drivers this is a gaming laptop and it is crucial to update the GPU drivers otherwise some games will give errors or not run altogether.
just FYI, here are the results, the new drivers seem much better:
Alienware Graphics Driver 332.70:
Link: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4900MQ,Alienware 01W2J2
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nVIDIA GeForce Driver 344.75 (installed without using any driver mods whatsoever):
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Link: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4900MQ,Alienware 01W2J2
I know OEMs cannot keep up with the pace that nVIDIA updates their drivers but having no updates since one year for a gaming laptop is pretty sad. As much as I hate ASUS, they at least have a dedicated drivers page for mobile GPUs drivers update which have the ASUS enhancements (if any)
I really hope DELL can give more attention to GPU drivers this is a gaming laptop and it is crucial to update the GPU drivers otherwise some games will give errors or not run altogether.
just FYI, here are the results, the new drivers seem much better:
Alienware Graphics Driver 332.70:
Link: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4900MQ,Alienware 01W2J2
nVIDIA GeForce Driver 344.75 (installed without using any driver mods whatsoever):
Link: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4900MQ,Alienware 01W2J2