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I saw a computer for 3D modeling (Autocad, 3DsMax, Sketchup, etc) which has an NVIDIA graphics card on it. The computer had several "NVIDIA Performance Drivers" installed on it, including one specifically for Autocad.

What are these for? Does the graphics card not handle this well enough by default? Does this mean each and every program could potentially require a performance driver??!!!

...and for multiple systems with different graphics cards, potentially a separate performance driver, for each card, for each program!?!

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nVidia says-

The NVIDIA Graphics Driver is technically a more stable driver. It will likely have been sent to ISVs for qual but since they are older, they may not have some performance optimizations of newer drivers or may not have some optimizations for newer recently released software. The Performance version is not as heavily tested by our ISVs but may perform better with a new workstation title just released or perform faster than older drivers.

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