Do you use NVIDIA's Studio Drivers?

W1zzard · Feb 12, 2025

NVIDIA's Studio Drivers are optimized for creative workloads, and the official claim is that they offer enhanced stability and performance for these tasks.

We'd like to know if you use these drivers or stick to the standard gaming drivers.

Onasi · Feb 12, 2025

Is Nyes an option? On my personal rig(s) - no, no need. On my workplace workstations - yes, I am running Studio drivers since there is less hassle with them in terms of release cadence and they have been rock solid stable.

Gigaherz · Feb 12, 2025

Only at work. Not for any practical reasons. Thats just what the IT guys were told to do.

GamreCaleb · Feb 12, 2025

I use my standard gaming drivers in my AMD because I primarily use my computer for BeamNG with friends.

AusWolf · Feb 13, 2025

I don't do any creative stuff on my PC. My main rig plays games, and my two HTPCs play movies.

Besides, I don't even know what "optimised for creative workloads" means. Can you not run Blender on game-ready drivers?

Solaris17 · Feb 13, 2025

I do. The cadence isnt that slow. If I am having issues or playing something that for some reason needs a game ready driver I will jump to it, but I just grab them again when they catch up.

Dr. Dro · Feb 13, 2025

Yes, I do. I actively prefer the Studio or Enterprise branches whenever possible.

But I don't think this poll will be accurate - "No" technically includes the entirety of the AMD and Intel user base, as well as folks on legacy, pre-RTX Nvidia hardware that doesn't support this driver type.

Visible Noise · Feb 13, 2025

Do you use NVIDIA's Studio Drivers?

GamreCaleb said:
I use my standard gaming drivers in my AMD because I primarily use my computer for BeamNG with friends.

Wow

GodisanAtheist · Feb 13, 2025

I mean, I have a 6800xt and a 980Ti so... No I don't use NVidia's Studio drivers.

SmookinJoe · Feb 13, 2025

Depends on my mood...lol
I run them both..so I can't vote
Rarely update...

Dorek · Feb 13, 2025

Used studio driver once just so ark ascended stops crashing but been using gaming drivers exclusively usually.

kw_broadens · Feb 13, 2025

Yes, since I mainly use my GPU for video editing. The studio drivers have been stable for me for years, *except* the very latest one 572.16 - my monitors would not come back on after waking the PC from sleep. One of the monitors showed invalid refresh rate error, the other (identical model but with later firmware) just stayed black. I'm running the monitors 1920x1200 @ 60fps. If I switched them to 1920x1080 they woke up fine. So I have gone back to the previous studio version 566.36. Running on RTX 4080.

AleXXX666 · Feb 13, 2025

I use them for STABILITY. Maybe I'm just concerned - but I'm happy with it lol. I even installed with NVCleanInstall Studio driver to unsupported GTX 960 - and it works lol

chrcoluk · Feb 13, 2025

Usually I use studio because as I understand it they have higher level of quality control, I tend to treat game ready as beta, and studio as stable, but right now I am on game ready drivers as I wanted access to the latest DLSS4 optimised drivers.

b1k3rdude · Feb 14, 2025

I would start using SD's if nVidia pull the classic control panel from future game drivers.

ypsylon · Feb 15, 2025

Only Studio drivers. On any work or non-work system.

Daven · Feb 16, 2025

Dr. Dro said:
Yes, I do. I actively prefer the Studio or Enterprise branches whenever possible.

But I don't think this poll will be accurate - "No" technically includes the entirety of the AMD and Intel user base, as well as folks on legacy, pre-RTX Nvidia hardware that doesn't support this driver type.

I think the poll pre-supposes responses from just Nvidia users.

Sh1nta@ · Feb 16, 2025

I change drivers 2 times a year. max 3x.
Always studios drivers.
I'm looking for stability more than 7fps more when I'm already doing 134...
If it's even possible that the ready version really allows you to have 7fps more. It's rarely an exact science.
I've never had weird messages that prevent me from launching a program or a game. Studios drivers tend to digest everything you can throw at it.
Personally, I find my account there.

anonuser57 · Feb 18, 2025

I think this poll should have been do you use the "pro"variant for your GPU's drivers or just included a not using Nvidia option. AMD has Radeon Pro which is meant for the same use case as NV's Studio drivers. So would have avoided all AMD users voting no.

Kadath · Feb 19, 2025

I use the DKMS drivers on Linux. Does that count?

Ruru · Feb 21, 2025

Gaming drives always with both NV and AMD.

Deslok · Feb 25, 2025

Both of my cards are workstation cards so the Production Branch/Studio Driver is just the default, although i'd anticipate anyone doing creative/production work would be better off using them over the game ready drivers.

Selaya · Feb 27, 2025

is there even a difference? i just nvcleaninstall w/e version i want, on whichever card that is architecturally supported - usually the latest gameready driver ...

Onasi · Feb 27, 2025

Selaya said:
is there even a difference?

Besides release cadence? Not really. Well, 10-bit color support for Photoshop. That’s it.

cvaldes · Feb 27, 2025

I use both since there are multiple builds here. I use the Game Ready drivers for a couple of gaming rigs and the Studio driver for another machine that doesn't have any games installed.

Processor	Ryzen 7 5700X
Memory	48 GB
Video Card(s)	RTX 4080
Storage	2x HDD RAID 1, 3x M.2 NVMe
Display(s)	30" 2560x1600 + 19" 1280x1024
Software	Windows 10 64-bit

System Name	The Workhorse
Processor	AMD Ryzen R9 5900X
Motherboard	Gigabyte Aorus B550 Pro
Cooling	CPU - Noctua NH-D15S Case - 3 Noctua NF-A14 PWM at the bottom, 2 Fractal Design 180mm at the front
Memory	GSkill Trident Z 3200CL14
Video Card(s)	NVidia GTX 1070 MSI QuickSilver
Storage	Adata SX8200Pro
Display(s)	LG 32GK850G
Case	Fractal Design Torrent (Solid)
Audio Device(s)	FiiO E-10K DAC/Amp, Samson Meteorite USB Microphone
Power Supply	Corsair RMx850 (2018)
Mouse	Razer Viper (Original) on a X-Raypad Equate Plus V2
Keyboard	Cooler Master QuickFire Rapid TKL keyboard (Cherry MX Black)
Software	Windows 11 Pro (24H2)

System Name	Main Workstation
Processor	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX PBO 3,6-4,2Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme + Extreme Cooling Kit
Cooling	Alphacool Eisbaer Aurora Pro 420
Memory	8x16GB (128) Kingston Fury RGB @3266Mts 16-18-18-36-74 2T
Video Card(s)	RTX 3090 ROG Gaming OC @1500Mhz (1965Boost)
Storage	Lexar NM790 2TB, Corsair Force MP510 960Gb, Samsung 860 SATA 2TB, 2TB WD Green 7200rpm
Case	Phanteks Ethoo Pro 2 TG
Power Supply	EVGA Super Nova 1000GT

System Name	Obsidian
Processor	Intel i7 13700k OC 5.6GHz
Motherboard	MSI MPG z690 EDGE wifi ddr5
Cooling	MSI MAG CoreLiquid 360R V2
Memory	Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 4x8GB
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900-XTX Vapor-X 24GB
Storage	WD_BLACK 1TB SN850
Display(s)	3x Acer 240Hz 1440x2560p 27"
Case	Corsair 5000d
Audio Device(s)	Logitech z200 speakers
Power Supply	MAINGEAR 1200W Platinum PSU
Mouse	EVGA X20 wireless gaming mouse
Keyboard	Havit Mechanical Keyboard
Software	Windows 11 v23H2
Benchmark Scores	CPU: time spy 16820 GPU: time spy 30400

System Name	My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi
Cooling	be quiet! Dark Rock 4
Memory	2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 CL36
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT
Storage	2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz
Case	Kolink Citadel Mesh
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones
Power Supply	750 W Seasonic Prime GX
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard	Logitech G413 SE
Software	Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma

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System Name	RogueOne
Processor	Xeon W9-3495x
Motherboard	ASUS w790E Sage SE
Cooling	SilverStone XE360-4677
Memory	128gb Gskill Zeta R5 DDR5 RDIMMs
Video Card(s)	MSI SUPRIM Liquid X 4090
Storage	1x 2TB WD SN850X \| 2x 8TB GAMMIX S70
Display(s)	49" Philips Evnia OLED (49M2C8900)
Case	Thermaltake Core P3 Pro Snow
Audio Device(s)	Moondrop S8's on schitt Gunnr
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime TX-1600
Mouse	Razer Viper mini signature edition (mercury white)
Keyboard	Monsgeek M3 Lavender, Moondrop Luna lights
VR HMD	Quest 3
Software	Windows 11 Pro Workstation
Benchmark Scores	I dont have time for that.

System Name	"Icy Resurrection"
Processor	13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900KS
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15S upgraded with 2x NF-F12 iPPC-3000 fans and Honeywell PTM7950 TIM
Memory	32 GB G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB F5-6800J3445G16GX2-TZ5RK @ 7600 MT/s 36-44-44-52-96 1.4V
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA RTX A2000 (5090 shipping to me soon™)
Storage	500 GB WD Black SN750 SE NVMe SSD + 4 TB WD Red Plus WD40EFPX HDD
Display(s)	55-inch LG G3 OLED
Case	Pichau Mancer CV500 White Edition
Audio Device(s)	Sony MDR-V7 connected through Apple USB-C
Power Supply	EVGA 1300 G2 1.3kW 80+ Gold
Mouse	Microsoft Classic IntelliMouse (2017)
Keyboard	IBM Model M type 1391405
Software	Windows 10 Pro 22H2
Benchmark Scores	I pulled a Qiqi~

System Name	XPS, Lenovo and HP Laptops, HP Xeon Mobile Workstation, HP Servers, Dell Desktops
Processor	Everything from Turion to 13900kf
Motherboard	MSI - they own the OEM market
Cooling	Air on laptops, lots of air on servers, AIO on desktops
Memory	I think one of the laptops is 2GB, to 64GB on gamer, to 128GB on ZFS Filer
Video Card(s)	A pile up to my knee, with a RTX 4090 teetering on top
Storage	Rust in the closet, solid state everywhere else
Display(s)	Laptop crap, LG UltraGear of various vintages
Case	OEM and a 42U rack
Audio Device(s)	Headphones
Power Supply	Whole home UPS w/Generac Standby Generator
Software	ZFS, UniFi Network Application, Entra, AWS IoT Core, Splunk
Benchmark Scores	1.21 GigaBungholioMarks

System Name	NON-AMD Folding Farm
Processor	Intel i7 7700K-9700K-14700K
Motherboard	Asus WS Z390 Pro's, Z270 A, TUF Z390-Plus Gaming Wifi's, Prime Z790 P Wifi
Cooling	Coolermater 212's, EVGA AIO's, EVGA CLx AIO
Memory	Vengeance
Video Card(s)	4090FE, 4090 MSI Suprim AIO, MSI 4090 X Tri(will edit)'s, EVGA 3080 FTW3's
Storage	WD HD's, WD NVME's
Display(s)	You would ask...LoL 7 Colour Monitors all given to me for free
Case	Rosewell Mining Cases, Coolermaster Haf Evo's
Power Supply	EVGA 1600P2's, Seasonic Platinum 1300's, EVGA Platinum 750's, EVGA Gold 750's, EVGA Bronze 650's
Mouse	Logitech's
Keyboard	Logitech's, Old school ps2's, (will edit)
Software	Win 10 Pro's, AI Suite 3, Precison X1's, Afterburner's, AVG Free, Bionic's, FAH's
Benchmark Scores	HuH?

System Name	desktop
Processor	Ryzen 9800X3d
Motherboard	Asrock Pro Rs
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
Memory	G.Skill Flare X5 6000mhz cl30 1.35v
Video Card(s)	Asus GeForce RTX 4080 TUF Gaming - OC Edition
Storage	2TB WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe
Display(s)	Acer Predator 1440p
Case	Fractal R6

System Name	Dell XPS 8960
Processor	i9-14900K
Memory	32GB DDR5 5600MHz
Video Card(s)	Dell RTX 4080 16GB
Display(s)	2 x Lenovo T25d-10 1920x1200

System Name	Laptop ASUS TUF F15 \| Desktop 1 \| Desktop 2
Processor	Intel Core i7-11800H \| Intel Core i5-14600K@135W \| Intel Core i3-10100
Motherboard	ASUS FX506HC \| Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 \| MSI MAG B560M Bazooka
Cooling	Laptop built-in cooling lol \| Thermalright Assassin Spirit w/ BeQuiet Shadow Wings fan\| Stock Copper
Memory	24 GB @ 3200 \| 32 GB @ 3200 \| 16 GB @ 3200
Video Card(s)	Nvidia RTX 3050 Mobile 4GB \| Nvidia GTX 1650 \| Nvidia GTX 960 2 GB
Storage	Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB \| Samsung M2 SSD 256 GB & 1 TB 2.5" HDD @ 7200\| SSD 250 GB & SSD 240 GB
Display(s)	Laptop built-in 144 Hz FHD screen \| Dell 27" WQHD @ 75 Hz & 49" TV FHD \| Samsung 32" TV FHD
Case	It's a laptop, it doesn't need case lmfao \| Deepcool Mattrexx 55 MESH \| Aerocool Cylon PRO
Audio Device(s)	laptop built in audio \| Logitech stereo speakers \| Logitech 2.1 speakers
Power Supply	ASUS 180W PSU \| SeaSonic Focus GX-550 \| MSI MAG A550BN
Mouse	Logitech G604 \| Corsair Harpoon wired mouse\| Logitech G305
Keyboard	Laptop built-in keyboard \|Razer Blackwidow \| Steelseries APEX 7 TKL
VR HMD	Quest 2 sold out and don't need VR anymore lol
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 \| Windows 11 24H2 LTSC \| Windows 11 24H2 LTSC
Benchmark Scores	good enough

System Name	Main PC
Processor	13700k
Motherboard	Asrock Z690 Steel Legend D4 - Bios 13.02
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15S
Memory	32 Gig 3200CL14
Video Card(s)	4080 RTX SUPER FE 16G
Storage	1TB 980 PRO, 2TB SN850X, 2TB DC P4600, 1TB 860 EVO, 2x 3TB WD Red, 2x 4TB WD Red
Display(s)	LG 27GL850
Case	Fractal Define R4
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster AE-9
Power Supply	Antec HCG 750 Gold
Software	Windows 10 21H2 LTSC

System Name	-
Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	MSI MEG X570
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 (4x140 push-pull)
Memory	32GB Patriot Steel DDR4 3733 (8GBx4)
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 4080 X-trio.
Storage	Sabrent Rocket-Plus-G 2TB, Crucial P1 1TB, WD 1TB sata.
Display(s)	LG Ultragear 34G750 nano-IPS 34" utrawide
Case	Define R6
Audio Device(s)	Xfi PCIe
Power Supply	Fractal Design ION Gold 750W
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder V2 Mini.
Keyboard	Logitech K120
VR HMD	Er no, pointless.
Software	Windows 10 22H2
Benchmark Scores	Timespy - 24522 \| Crystalmark - 7100/6900 Seq. & 84/266 QD1 \|

System Name	4K-gaming / console
Processor	5800X @ PBO +200 / i5-8600K @ 4.6GHz
Motherboard	ROG Crosshair VII Hero / ROG Strix Z370-F
Cooling	Alphacool Eisbaer 360 / Alphacool Eisbaer 240
Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3600
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 3080 / Powercolor RX 6700 XT
Storage	3TB of SSDs / several small SSDs
Display(s)	4K120 IPS + 4K60 IPS / 1080p60 HDTV
Case	Corsair 4000D AF White / DeepCool CC560 WH
Audio Device(s)	Sony WH-CH720N / TV speakers
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk / Ajazz i303 Pro
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / Obinslab Anne 2 Pro
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro / Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	They run Crysis

System Name	daily driver Mac mini M2 Pro
Processor	Apple proprietary M2 Pro (6 p-cores, 4 e-cores)
Motherboard	Apple proprietary
Cooling	Apple proprietary
Memory	Apple proprietary 16GB LPDDR5 unified memory
Video Card(s)	Apple proprietary M2 Pro (16-core GPU)
Storage	Apple proprietary onboard 512GB SSD + various external HDDs
Display(s)	LG UltraFine 27UL850W (4K@60Hz IPS)
Case	Apple proprietary
Audio Device(s)	Apple proprietary
Power Supply	Apple proprietary
Mouse	Apple Magic Trackpad 2
Keyboard	Keychron K1 tenkeyless (Gateron Reds)
VR HMD	Oculus Rift S (hosted on a different PC)
Software	macOS Sonoma 14.7
Benchmark Scores	(My Windows daily driver is a Beelink Mini S12 Pro. I'm not interested in benchmarking.)

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