Just a few months earlier than launch, it was revealed that Bethesda could be partnering with AMD for Starfield, seemingly leaving Nvidia and Intel customers nervous. Now, Group Inexperienced has pushed out a brand new driver replace that’s mentioned to spice up the sport by a mean of 5%.

That’s based on a current weblog submit from Nvidia itself. The lengthy and the wanting it’s the firm is rolling out an over-the-air (OTA) replace for the RTX 30 and RTX 40 sequence. The submit describes it as a “Resizable BAR profile for Starfield which will increase efficiency” for its fashionable graphics playing cards.

Anybody enjoying the sport on PC with one of many above GPU generations ought to hopefully see some enhancements to general efficiency.

The Colony Wars vs the Graphics Card Wars

On condition that Starfield has been higher optimized for AMD {hardware}, the likes of Nvidia and Intel will seemingly have a tougher time assembly expectations.

This does seem like the case as famous within the above video from Digital Foundry. Within the evaluation, Starfield working on an Nvidia RTX 2070 SUPER struggles to succeed in 60fps. By comparability, Cyberpunk 2077 is ready to obtain above 70fps with the identical {hardware} and with ray tracing on.

Even the Nvidia RTX 4060 is unable match the efficiency output of AMD’s personal RX 7600. The previous appears to have issues even reaching 40fps, whereas the latter greater than outdoes its competitor when it comes to framerate.

Hopefully this newest OTA replace from Group Inexperienced ought to see some enhancements. Future benchmark checks will no less than be capable of give the lowdown. In the event you’re struggling to get the motive force replace OTA, Nvidia’s personal Sean Pelletier has some recommendation on tips on how to drive the replace.