check this out...
"old" drivers
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?im...1fNF8xX2wuZ2lm
"new" drivers
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?im...1fNF80X2wuZ2lm
notice the optimizations from the "new" drivers mainly affect the scores in the games that are being counted towards the 3dmark total ?
I'll let the driver "optimizations" speak for themselves...