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NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build

Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 24 March 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT. 9 Comments
Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch.

Since the prior R595 beta driver, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver fixes a regression that caused some X11 compositors to blink, fixing KWin Wayland from being able to wake up displays in certain scenarios, improved support for falling back to system memory when available vRAM is low, and a variety of other bug fixes. There is also a Linux 6.19 kernel build fix worth noting.

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The prior NVIDIA beta Linux driver brought DRI3 version 1.2, VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support, VK_EXT_present_timing support, enabling the NVIDIA DRM kernel driver to modeset=1 behavior by default, requiring at least Wayland 1.20, raising the minimum X.Org Server version support to 1.17, and other updates.

The NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver can be downloaded from NVIDIA.com. For recent benchmarks of the R595 driver branch, see NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks.

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