Gamers have logged millions of hours playing PC games with improved performance from Game Ready Drivers. But as NVIDIA GPUs rapidly evolve, we’re finding a growing audience of creators using their graphics cards for apps such as Adobe Photoshop CC, Premiere Pro CC, and even renderers such as Autodesk Arnold. If you’re a video editor, graphic designer, photographer, broadcaster, or 3D animator, high-performance GPUs can boost your productivity with advanced tech like hardware-accelerated ray tracing, AI-enhanced creative workflows, and advanced video processing.
So we’re introducing a new NVIDIA Studio Driver program to provide all creators the best performance and reliability when working with creative apps.
To achieve the highest level of reliability, Studio Drivers undergo extensive testing against multiple revisions of the top creative apps. Whether you just updated to the latest release of your favorite creative app, or are still on the prior version, Studio Drivers are fully tested. We also conduct exhaustive multi-app testing for each type of creative workflow, evaluating driver quality in the same manner that creators work day-to-day. Editing 4K video in Adobe Premiere CC then moving it to After Effects for post production visual effects then back to Premiere to render, an example of a video editor’s everyday task, is rigorously tested to ensure the best experience possible.
With Game Ready Drivers and Studio Drivers now available, customers can now select a driver cadence tailored to their priorities. Gamers who are looking for the best gaming performance and optimizations for the latest releases and DLCs will be best served by choosing Game Ready Drivers. Given the frequency of new games, patches, and DLCs, there are a significant number of Game Ready Drivers released over the course of the year. In contrast, creators, whose main focus is on a handful of apps making up their creative workflows, will be better suited to select Studio Drivers. With an emphasis on long-term stability and support, these drivers are only released a handful of times throughout the year and each new Studio Driver has significant bug fixes and enhancements for creative apps over the prior release.