Nvidia has released the new GeForce 457.09 graphics drivers, which not only supports this particular graphics card but also welcomes Watch Dogs Legion and brings a number of new features and additional fixes. Let’s take a look at them.
GeForce 457.09: New drivers add support for RTX 3070
The GeForce 457.09 drivers provide official support for the RTX 3070 GPU and five new games, including Watch Dogs: Legion, Dirt 5, Ghostrunner, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, and Xuan-Yuan Sword VII.
The RTX 3070 is Nvidia’s newest midrange GPU within the new Ampere architecture with 5888 CUDA cores and 8GB GDDR6. The GPU achieves the performance of the RTX 2080 Ti for only $500.
In addition to the five new supported titles, the 457.09 driver also provides official support for four additional G-Sync-enabled displays: the Acer XB323U GX, Asus VG279QL1A, Dell AW2521HFLA, and the Gigabyte AORUS FI25F. All with high update rates from 165 Hz to 240 Hz.
The GeForce Experience also attracts some attention with 16 additional games that now support the optimization feature. The most notable addition is the new space shooting game Star Wars: Squadrons, which was recently released. Also in the list is the support of Nvidia’s Reflex technology for the game profiles Fortnite and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare/Warzone.
You can download the drivers via the following link.