NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 9 March 2026 at 10:35 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 21 Comments.
Unigine Heaven benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Mode: Fullscreen, Renderer: OpenGL. 590.48.01 was the fastest.
Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Low, Renderer: OpenGL. 590.48.01 was the fastest.
Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Medium, Renderer: OpenGL. 590.48.01 was the fastest.
Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 6144 x 2560, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: High, Renderer: OpenGL. 595.45.04 was the fastest.

Unlike the nice gains seen with some of the Vulkan benchmarks, the OpenGL performance was unchanged with the NVIDIA R595 driver release.

FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16C. 595.45.04 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16S. 595.45.04 was the fastest.

Besides the graphics performance, the OpenCL performance such as with FluidX3D CFD was showing slight performance gains on the NVIDIA 595 Linux driver beta.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX. 595.45.04 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX. 595.45.04 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX. 595.45.04 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX. 595.45.04 was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX. 595.45.04 was the fastest.

The Blender 5.0 render performance with the NVIDIA OptiX back-end was also slightly faster with the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver beta.

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