Fed up with your RTX 5000 laptop GPU running a bit slow? NVIDIA's new graphics driver has a fix

NVIDIA's latest graphics driver has fixed a bug with its RTX 5000 laptop graphics cards which caused them to underperform somewhat.

VideoCardz highlighted the cure for the sluggishness related only to mobile Blackwell GPUs, which meant their TGP wasn't being pushed as high as it should've been, leading to a drop in performance.

Reviews of gaming laptops with RTX 5000 GPUs inside had uncovered this oddity with power delivery, but it wasn't something NVIDIA commented on. Oddly, as VideoCardz pointed out, the official bug fix was only documented via the notes on NVIDIA's GeForce forums, and not with the release notes accompanying the actual driver.

On the forums, NVIDIA said that it had fixed a problem whereby "GeForce RTX 50 series TGP limit may be clipped earlier."

That said, the bump in clock speed brought in with the TGP fix is not huge, and reportedly sits around the 50MHz level - though that still represents some extra frames which are worth having.

The new Game Ready Driver brings in support for the RTX 5060 graphics card, both the desktop and laptop variants, a lower-end Blackwell GPU which has proved controversial as we've recently discussed.

There are some other general bug fixes here, but they're all very minor affairs, such as the remedy for some broken interface elements with Lumion 12, a 3D rendering app for professionals. The other noteworthy cures are for PC games, as follows:

• [F1 23 and F1 24] Game crashes at the end of a race
• [Diablo II Resurrected] Game displays black screen corruption when using DLSS
• [SCUM] Game may crash after updating to R575 drivers
• Shader disk cache will not be created with certain games if OS username contains unicode characters