Nvidia Issues Driver Reducing GPU Performance

Nvidia released driver 595.71 on March 2, which fixes fan-stopping bugs from 595.59 but now limits core clock, voltage and power on some GPUs, producing up to 16% lower performance in tests of RTX 5090 and other cards. Independent tests by Bang4BuckPC Gamer and WCCFTech show manual overclocks no longer reach prior peaks; affected users are advised to roll back to 591.74 or 591.86.