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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Aaron Klotz

Nvidia driver 595.71 reportedly limits overclocks on some GeForce GPUs, but not all — troubled driver release seems to stifle voltages on RTX 40- and 50-series cards

GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition.

Nvidia's latest 595.71 driver release has reportedly introduced new problems not seen in last week's highly problematic 595.59 driver—a release so troubled that Nvidia had to pull it a few days ago. Several user reports, and at least one YouTuber, have discovered that release 595.71 is limiting GPU overclocking on many RTX 40- and 50-series graphics cards. The most highly impacted models are said to be losing around 200MHz of overclocking headroom compared to previous releases.

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