NVIDIA GRAPHICS DRIVER 576.02 Apparently more than correcting bugs and other critical problems with which users have been confronted with RTX GPUs.
GeForce RTX 5080 wins a good performance bump; Sees notable uprisings in summary and play tests
Nvidia recently published its latest graphic pilot, 576.02, which aimed to solve the widespread bricks of RTX GPUs and other critical problems. Since the release of Nvidia Driver 572.xx, several GeForce RTX series have been faced with various bugs, but the 576.02 would not have simply corrected most of them, but it has also been improved in performance.
According to a report, the RTX 50 series has enormously benefited from this engine in terms of electrical efficiency and has dropped significantly in inactive mode. In the previous versions of the GPU driver, the RTX 5070 took place at around 180 MHz, which was only reduced to 22 MHz with the last 576.02. The RTX 5060 TI also experienced a massive improvement in inactive mode, falling to only 7 W of electricity consumption.
In another case, the RTX 5080 would have gained a good increase in performance. A user experienced a score of approximately 4.3% higher with the 576.02 pilot (8,832 points against 9,215 points with 576.02 in 3DMARK steel nomad). Another user reported an astonishing gain of 7.5% in the same test (8,400 points against 9,033 points) with the last driver.
The gains also extend to real game tests such as Marvel Rivaux, Where the RTX 5080 with Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered more than 150 IPS compared to 140+ IPS with the previous pilot. Thus, a gain of 5 to 7% was also seen here. Users on a Reddit wire The possession of other GPUs RTX 50 has reported the same thing, including the GPU owners of the RTX 5070 series. Surprisingly, some have also experienced 3 to 4% improvements on the RTX 40 series.
Therefore, it looks more like a pilot problem, which strangled the performance of RTX GPUs. Some users have also pointed out the unlocking of the superior VRAM clocks with the latest pilot update, which resulted in more performance, but it would be necessary to manually overclocker the VRAM for that. Overall, the 576.02 does what a Nvidia GPU driver should usually do.
In recent weeks, Nvidia pilots have been boring, even less the multiple problems than GPUs in the RTX 50 series have sent to the material level. Some have been discussed but not completely fixed. On the software side, things can be managed much more easily than on the hardware side, and we have reported all the fixes than the last GPU 576.02 driver is delivered.
Sources of information: @unikoshardware,, Guru3D,, YouTube