NVIDIA’s Latest Driver Fixes GeForce RTX 3080 Crashes, Users Say

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We reported on the release of NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready 456.55 WHQL driver earlier today. In its release notes, green team mentioned that the driver “improves stability in certain games on RTX 30 Series GPUs.” That statement might actually be true.



We’re seeing an increasing amount of reports on r/NVIDIA from users who are claiming that their cards are no longer crashing after updating to the new driver, even when boost clocks are set loose.



“MSI Ventus 3X 10G OC 3080 owner here,” one redditor wrote. “I had...

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[Grimlakin]

Its probably doing some behind the scenes throttling or its narrowed the power to performance steps.

 

[kcthebrewer]

I feel this is more of a limit peaks issue than a 'throttle' issue.
Likely a combination of Boost 5.0 and the slightly worse power delivery.

I expect to see negligible performance difference from the change except increased stability for those that were having issues.

 

[Auer]

I feel this is more of a limit peaks issue than a 'throttle' issue.
Likely a combination of Boost 5.0 and the slightly worse power delivery.

I expect to see negligible performance difference from the change except increased stability for those that were having issues.

For most ppl it seems the differences are pretty small. Forums, reddit etc.
Anything from 20 to 100Mhz loss, and some report they are still in the 2050MHz range.

I guess once things get re-tested by reviewers we know more.