Nvidia reportedly developing AI-optimised graphics drivers

It's always a nice surprise when a new GPU driver drops and offers an increase to your gaming performance. Nvidia is reportedly readying something even more significant however, as a recent report claims the company plans to launch graphics drivers with AI optimisations to areas such as “instructions, throughput, hardware utilisation, threading, [and] settings”.

The report comes from CapFrameX, who also stated that the new drivers are set to come out this quarter. In addition, the leaker claimed the new drivers could bring up to 30% performance gains, with the average gain in the ballpark of 10%. That certainly looks pretty good when taken at face value, especially considering it's a free performance bump.

[Rumor] Nvidia is working on AI optimized drivers. Release maybe this year (Q1).

▶️ Up to 30% more performance
▶️ Average improvement ~10%
▶️ No info about specific gen

Take this with a grain of salt. If true Nvidia drivers will be real "fine wine". pic.twitter.com/QGTUL9iK7N

— CapFrameX (@CapFrameX) January 8, 2023

Unfortunately, the report doesn't state which GPUs will benefit from these improvements. Hopefully, it will be for all GPU generations currently supported by Nvidia. Still, we wouldn't be surprised if the green team started with a soft launch for their latest RTX cards, with older generations receiving the updates later, but that's pure speculation right now.

Currently, it's unclear how these optimisations would work and at what level they will be implemented. This is also just a rumour, with no claimed source, so take it with a large gain of salt for now.

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