Users are reporting performance gains after updating to the latest NVIDIA Hotfix driver that fixed several bugs.
Redditor Reports His Best Ever Scores With RTX 5080 Using the Latest NVIDIA Hotfix Driver 595.76; Others Confirm the Same
After re-releasing the new Hotfix driver 595.76, some users are now reporting better performance on their GeForce RTX 50 series cards. Just a few days ago, NVIDIA rolled out the Hotfix driver 595.71, which reportedly fixed the performance issues in Resident Evil: Requiem; however, the driver also introduced some bugs related to core voltage. We found it limiting the voltage on the RTX 50 cards, due to which our RTX 5090 was operating at a sub-3 GHz clock.
Many users complained about the same, but then NVIDIA released the newer driver 595.76, which fixed the issue. Some users are now reporting improved performance on the newer driver vs the previous driver, and the uplifts are looking quite impressive. The Redditor u/CoffeeStock8536 reported he broke all his previous records on 3DMark Time Spy with the latest driver and achieved 35,853 points.
He reportedly achieved it using the ASUS PRIME RTX 5080, which is now performing well in both synthetic and gaming workloads. The Steel Nomad benchmark helped him achieve 99.72 FPS, and as per his comments on the thread, he was previously getting 92.23 FPS. So, this is a solid 7% performance boost with a simple driver upgrade.
Yeah this my daily gaming OC and it’s super stable, I was super impressed by how well it handles OC’ing and without changing any settings I was able to pick up a decent amount of performance just by getting the new hotfix driver
- u/CoffeeStock8536
Even in games, he was seeing a noticeable FPS increase, such as in Assetto Corsa and BeamNG, where the RTX 5080 now delivers 15-30 FPS higher than before. He says the previous driver wasn't letting the GPU cores boost to the max frequency when overclocked. With the new driver, it appears that the RTX 50 cards can overclock better than ever, and there are several users confirming the same.
So, if you haven't updated to the latest driver 595.76, we encourage you to download and test it to see if you are also seeing such gains.
News Source: Reddit
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