Radeon R6 M340DX 

NVIDIA is classifying this as their Game Ready driver for GRID: Autosport and the Battlefield: Hardline beta, while a few other games including The Elder Scrolls: Online and Watch Dogs have received either new or updated SLI profiles.

As the follow-up to R337’s significant DirectX overhaul R340 is far more low-key release that is focused on iteration and minor features, as reflected by NVIDIA’s release highlights and release notes.

xx GPU drivers for Windows will be the last to contain "enhancements and optimizations" for users with video cards based on architectures before Fermi.

From our DirectX 12 live blog, we also noticed that the new graphics API will, likewise, begin support at Fermi.

Nvidia also revealed that while we are currently seeing software implementation of unified memory with CUDA 6, Maxwell will most likely have some sort of hardware functionality for implementing unified memory thus removing any performance penalties and most likely doing it much better than software solution with CUDA 6.

While it does not resolve technical limitations that require memory copying, like limited bandwidth and latency of the PCIe, it moves memory management to CUDA rather than other toolkit, thus simply making the life of the programmer much easier.

Kicking off next week will be the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC.

Maxwell will have some kind of hardware functionality for implementing unified memory (and presumably better performance for it), though it’s not something NVIDIA is talking about until Maxwell is ready for its full unveiling.