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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

The driver caused huge performance regressions on RTX4000 series cards:

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"DDU'd and installed 576.88. This is literally the opening scene on the street, max settings, PT enabled:

591.86: 74 fps with DLSS P and 2X FG, around 304W average GPU power draw

576.88: 118 fps with DLSS P and 2X FG, around 405W average GPU power draw"
 
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Neil79 said:
Not just this driver, performance has steadily degraded with every new driver, although this depends on the game...

Kept going back to 581.89
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But,but you will saved by DLSS4.5 where you can upscale from 720p to 4k with better image quality,right? That is what reddit keeps saying.

TBH,when I had an RTX3060TI I started to notice this too and stuck on an older driver.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
591.86: 74 fps with DLSS P and 2X FG, around 304W average GPU power draw

576.88: 118 fps with DLSS P and 2X FG, around 405W average GPU power draw"
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Planned obsolescence is a thing with all tech, The evidence is there for everyone to see.

EDIT

More people getting the same results, 576.88 from July last year offering much better performance.

576.88
Current - 99 FPS
Average - 189 FPS
1% Low - 88 FPS

591.86
Current - 85 FPS
Average - 153 FPS
1% Low - 78 FPS

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Shame there's no RE9 demo otherwise I would've tested that though I did some benchmarks hidden in the spoiler tags. I also did Shadow of the Tomb Raider but did not see anything out of the ordinary in all three driver versions so I'm leaning towards this being a problem that does not effect me or its specifically with RE9.

Edit: Cleaned up the post and As someone quoted me I went back to the Black Myth Wukong benchmark and ran it 2 times and it solved the min FPS at the start of the benchmark as I ran it of a HDD.

Windows 10, 13600K, 32GB 3600 C16 RAM, RTX 4070 12GB I used DDU and then installed each driver after each benchmark run.

Final Fantasy 15 Benchmark 1.2
Driver Version576581591
Lite Quality 720p234482355823525
High Quality 4k728671587109


Superposition Benchmark
ScoreFPS MinFPS AvgFPS Max
576 720P Low47218181.20353.17549.06
581 720P Low47374182.16354.33534.88
591 720P Low46760177.88349.74531.55
576 8K Optimised504031.1037.7046.16
581 8K Optimised504831.2837.7645.36
591 8K Optimised504331.1937.7246.39

Black Myth Wukong
Avg FPSMin FPSMax FPSLow 5th
1080P Low
576170106191158
58117127189159
59117126189160
591 3 runs169111190160
1440P Cinematic RT
57660497252
58160497251
59161507353

3dMark Steel Nomad
ScoreFPS
576383038.31
581370237.03
591378237.82
 
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G J said:
Shame there's no RE9 demo otherwise I would've tested that also though I did some benchmarks hidden in the spoiler tags and the only thing I noticed was the min fps diving in Black Myth Wukong with later driver versions though this could be thats its running of a HDD. I also did Shadow of the Tomb Raider but did not see anything out of the ordinary in all three driver versions so I'm leaning towards this being a problem specifically with RE9.

Windows 10, 13600K, 32GB 3600 C16 RAM, RTX 4070 12GB I used DDU and then installed each driver and used DDU after running the benchmarks and then installed the next driver.
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This is specifically for 5000 series though so maybe 4000 series has been spared, My performance with a 5090 has been up and down with each driver release, Even some of the studios have bee hit and miss.
 
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Dicehunter said:
Planned obsolescence is a thing with all tech, The evidence is there for everyone to see.

EDIT

More people getting the same results, 576.88 from July last year offering much better performance.

576.88
Current - 99 FPS
Average - 189 FPS
1% Low - 88 FPS

591.86
Current - 85 FPS
Average - 153 FPS
1% Low - 78 FPS

qqYoMTg.jpg
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Lmao Nvidia has some explaining to do!

I just tried with the Studio 577.00 drivers from July '25 vs what I was using until now, 591.74 Studio and....


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:cry:
 
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