Nvidia's RTX 50-series drivers feel half-baked, focus too much on MFG

Nvidia needed to modify its drivers to support the new Blackwell GPUs. It also recommended some changes in how people benchmark graphics cards, specifically related to MFG. Neither of these things appears to have been beneficial for Nvidia's latest GPUs, on the whole.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/nvidias-rtx-50-series-drivers-feel-half-baked-focus-too-much-on-mfg

Created 1mo | Jan 31, 2025, 3:40:04 PM


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