--- title: NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks description: NVIDIA has released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver, the first build in the R595 branch, bringing Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, and DRI3 v1.2... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-595-linux-driver-running-well-in-early-benchmarks-spwhbwlm6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA has released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver, the first build in the R595 branch, bringing Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, and DRI3 v1.2... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-595-linux-driver-running-well-in-early-benchmarks-spwhbwlm6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/spWhbwLM6.png og:image:alt: NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA has released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver, the first build in the R595 branch, bringing Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, and DRI3 v1.2 support. Early benchmarks comparing the stable 590.48.01 driver against the 595.45.04 beta on a GeForce RTX 5090 at 4K and 6K resolutions show incremental performance gains across OpenGL, Vulkan, and GPU compute workloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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