Nvidia: we release WHQL graphics card drivers far ahead of AMD and Intel

CTOnews.com, December 11, when it comes to graphics cards, the hardware itself is only part of the performance equation, because drivers are almost as important. For example, Intel's latest Arc driver improves the performance of games on the old API by nearly 80%, and new games like Need for Speed: Unbound can double the performance.

Sean Pelletier, a senior product manager at Tu Yuan Pexels Nvidia, recently shared some interesting statistics about the new driver release. Pelletier shows how Nvidia is well ahead of AMD and Intel in the release of WHQL certified drivers. These figures are for 2021 and 2022, and Nvidia says it will release four times as many WHQL drivers as AMD and more than twice as many drivers as Intel in 2021 and three times as many as AMD and Intel in 2022.

CTOnews.com learned that WHQL is an acronym for Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab, which means Windows hardware equipment quality Lab (Certification) in Chinese. It is mainly a compatibility test of the Windows operating system to ensure that these driver packages are compatible with Windows and can be updated and distributed through Windows.

In addition to the number of drivers certified by WHQL, the chart also contains drivers related to the number of optimized games. Nvidia is also far ahead in this respect, releasing about twice as many drivers for game optimization as AMD Radeon.