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 2 of 4. 21 Comments.
Benchmark-friendly Steam Play (Proton) titles like DiRT Rally 2.0 were showing some small performance gains out of the NVIDIA R595 beta driver upgrade.
The OpenGL performance was minimally impacted to no real surprise. But when hitting demanding Vulkan benchmarks like GravityMark was some very nice uplift on this NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Blackwell graphics card out of the new driver version. GravityMark with Vulkan either using rasterization or ray-tracing was showing some nice gains out of the NVIDIA 595 Linux driver beta.
The 3DMark Solar Bay Extreme Vulkan ray-tracing benchmark on Linux was meanwhile minimally impacted by the NVIDIA 590 stable to NVIDIA 595 beta upgrade.