I was told by many people that Detonator 50 is something that is worth waiting for and that shader performance will go sky high. Even ATI was concerned about this since it can not forget the painful past where Nvidia was always outperforming its faster solution with a simple driver update.
Since the R300, Radeon 9700 PRO time this hasn't happened but the community was hyped up about the detonator 50 that kept being postponed.
People inside Nvidia claimed that this driver will be two to six times faster in certain shader operations, in certain scenarios and many, many of our colleagues thought that must be so.
Gamersdepot showed that in two DirectX 9 upcoming titles Halo 1.5 and already in the market for quite some time Tomb Raider AOD.
Here is a link with graphics and it says all " here.
Nvidia sure has increased the performance of its drivers but not enough to outperform ATI. We reckon we will soon start hearing just how well Detonator 60 will perform.