NVIDIA have released the 410.57 driver as well as a 396.54.06 Vulkan beta driver to help DXVK

It's great to see them pushing into this. Now give us proper Optimus-support and i'm eager to buy a laptop with an NVIDIA-GPU.

It's been quite funny to see people respond to the new RTX cards. Like saying things like "only 20% performance increase, this sucks" when they're looking at the 1080p benchmark of a current generation game. When you look a little further you can easily see that on very heavy GPU loads it does much better. The 4k Ultra Superposition benchmarks shows +50% over the 1080 Ti, which is not out of the ordinary for a next generation card. But you need something to push it.

What we can all agree on is that it is not the most economical card in the world. In fact, it's bloody expensive for the performance it delivers. I suppose this is the price for lack of competition in the high end of the spectrum. They simply have no reason to offer it for less. This is probably the reason why they're releasing the Ti immediately. They start selling expensive models first before introducing a more reasonable 2070 into the market.

@liamdawe, there's a typo in the title! "releasd"

So how do we upgrade the driver with a .06 subversion? 396.54 is installed on my box today, will updates of that branch be automatic?
Upgrading the Nvidia drivers really are quite confusing for me, sometimes I need to manually install the new version, other times it seems to go automatically.

EhvisI suppose this is the price for lack of competition in the high end of the spectrum.

Well, their main selling point is real time ray-tracing and AI. And they do have a lot more silicon for supporting that
which probably does mean higher production costs in addition to more expensive GDDR6. You could use those arguments to explain away some of the price hike.

Real time ray-tracing is the holy grail of computer graphics, and it's great that some company has finally started (partially) implementing it.
But even for windows users it's probably not worth it due to the old catch 22. There's no games making use of it (yet) and until those features trickle down to low cost mainstream GPUs there probably won't be a whole lot.

Even more so for linux users. Regardless of NVidias awesome day one support for the features, my magic crystal ball says that it's likely going to be at least 1-2 GPU generations till we see any game on linux making use of it. So yeah, not worth it.

Kallestofeles@liamdawe, there's a typo in the title! "releasd"

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BeamboomSo how do we upgrade the driver with a .06 subversion? 396.54 is installed on my box today, will updates of that branch be automatic?
Upgrading the Nvidia drivers really are quite confusing for me, sometimes I need to manually install the new version, other times it seems to go automatically.

.06 is a beta driver which is most likely why it's being updated for you. Unless you are affected by an issue you can just wait until the next stable release.

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Kallestofeles@liamdawe, there's a typo in the title! "releasd"

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Yeah, thanks guys, fixed.

So this fixes Prey (2017) and it can be whitelisted for Steam Play. Wow. Can`t wait to test.

poisondReal time ray-tracing is the holy grail of computer graphics, and it's great that some company has finally started (partially) implementing it.
But even for windows users it's probably not worth it due to the old catch 22. There's no games making use of it (yet) and until those features trickle down to low cost mainstream GPUs there probably won't be a whole lot.

Even more so for linux users. Regardless of NVidias awesome day one support for the features, my magic crystal ball says that it's likely going to be at least 1-2 GPU generations till we see any game on linux making use of it. So yeah, not worth it.

In the movie industry it will be used immediately. That's why they have Linux drivers ready the day one.