NVIDIA 595 Beta: What’s New
The NVIDIA 595 beta version is now available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems. This release introduces several new features and improvements, including support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap and VK_EXT_present_timing Vulkan extensions.
Additionally, it supports Wayland 1.20 and DRI3 1.2, and includes a new application profile that allows CUDA-using apps to reach P0 PState.
Performance Enhancements
The NVIDIA 595 beta aims to improve the performance of recreating Vulkan swapchains, which helps prevent stuttering when resizing Vulkan app windows. Furthermore, it updates the driver to allow nvidia-smi to reset GPUs while nvidia-drm is loaded with the modeset=1 parameter enabled.
Other Noteworthy Changes
This release also updates the nvidia.ko kernel module to handle video memory preservation on its own when using the NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules and enabling the NVreg_UseKernelSuspendNotifiers=1 option.
Moreover, it enables the nvidia-drm.ko modeset=1 parameter by default, adds support for GNU C Library 2.27, and adds support for Xorg Server 1.17.
Conclusion and Download
The NVIDIA 595 beta release is available for download, but please note that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for production use. For a stable experience, use the latest production-ready version, NVIDIA 580.126.18, or the latest featured-branch version, NVIDIA 590.48.01.
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