NVIDIA GeForce 545.84 WHQL Graphics Driver Released (*** UPDATED: R545.92 WHQL ***)

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NVIDIA has released a new WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) gaming driver for Windows 10 and Windows 11. R545.84 belongs to the R545 family (545.xx to 549.xx) and brings the following changes:

Game Ready for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Warhammer: Vermintide 2
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver introduces TensorRT acceleration for Stable Diffusion to increase performance by up to 2x.

Gaming Technology
– Introduces support for RTX Video Super Resolution v1.5.

Fixed General Bugs
– Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode.
– Monitor colors are incorrect after coming back from display sleep.

What’s New in Release 545
– Support for CUDA 12.3.
– Adds the latest performance improvements, bug fixes, and driver enhancements

 
AI-Enhanced Video: NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution Update 1.5

 
More gaming related news in this article.

 

UPDATE (2023.10.26): R545.92 WHQL

Game Ready for Alan Wake 2
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3.5 technology and DLSS Ray Reconstruction including Alan Wake 2. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver supports the launch of titles supporting NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology including Ghostrunner 2.

Fixed Gaming Bugs
– [VR] Desktop colors turn overexposed after closing VR app.

Related article: Alan Wake 2 Game Ready Driver Released: Get The Definitive Experience With DLSS 3.5, Ray Reconstruction & Full Ray Tracing.

 

Downloads

 

GeForce 545.84 quick test

GPU Shark 2:
NVIDIA GeForce 545.84 + GPU Shark 2 + GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

 
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NVIDIA GeForce 545.84 + GPU Caps Viewer + GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

 

GeForce 545.92 quick test

GPU Shark 2:
NVIDIA GeForce 545.92 + GPU Shark 2 + GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

 

OpenGL support

GeForce 545.84

GeForce 545.84 exposes OpenGL 4.6 and 433 extensions for a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti on Windows 10 (v22H2). Same support than R528.xx.

GL_RENDERER: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 545.84
OpenGL extensions: 433

 

GeForce 545.92

Same OpenGL support.

 

Vulkan support

GeForce 545.84

This driver exposes Vulkan 1.3.260 and 198 device extensions for a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti on Windows 10 22H2.

This driver adds 11 new device extensions:
– VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix
– VK_KHR_maintenance5
– VK_KHR_map_memory2
– VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch
– VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_dynamic_state
– VK_EXT_depth_bias_control
– VK_EXT_dynamic_rendering_unused_attachments
– VK_EXT_host_image_copy
– VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
– VK_NV_device_generated_commands_compute
– VK_NV_low_latency2

# of Vulkan devices: 1
- Device 1
  - name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
  - device type: VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
  - device ID: 10DE-2782
  - API version: 1.3.260
  - NVIDIA driver version: 545.84.0.0

  - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline information:
    - shaderGroupHandleSize: 32
    - maxRayRecursionDepth: 31
    - maxShaderGroupStride: 4096
    - shaderGroupBaseAlignment: 64
    - shaderGroupHandleCaptureReplaySize: 32
    - maxRayDispatchInvocationCount: 1073741824
    - shaderGroupHandleAlignment: 32
    - maxRayHitAttributeSize: 32
    - maxRayDispatchInvocationCount: 1073741824

  - VK_KHR_acceleration_structure information:
    - maxGeometryCount: 16777215
    - maxInstanceCount: 16777215
    - maxPrimitiveCount: 536870911

  - VK_KHR_driver_properties information:
    - driverName: NVIDIA
    - driverID_str: VK_DRIVER_ID_NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY_KHR
    - driverID: 4
    - conformanceVersion: 1.3.0.6
    - driverInfo: 545.84

  - # of extensions: 198
  - VK_KHR_16bit_storage
  - VK_KHR_8bit_storage
  - VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
  - VK_KHR_bind_memory2
  - VK_KHR_buffer_device_address
  - VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix
  - VK_KHR_copy_commands2
  - VK_KHR_create_renderpass2
  - VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation
  - VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations
  - VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve
  - VK_KHR_descriptor_update_template
  - VK_KHR_device_group
  - VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count
  - VK_KHR_driver_properties
  - VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
  - VK_KHR_external_fence
  - VK_KHR_external_fence_win32
  - VK_KHR_external_memory
  - VK_KHR_external_memory_win32
  - VK_KHR_external_semaphore
  - VK_KHR_external_semaphore_win32
  - VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2
  - VK_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric
  - VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate
  - VK_KHR_get_memory_requirements2
  - VK_KHR_image_format_list
  - VK_KHR_imageless_framebuffer
  - VK_KHR_maintenance1
  - VK_KHR_maintenance2
  - VK_KHR_maintenance3
  - VK_KHR_maintenance4
  - VK_KHR_maintenance5
  - VK_KHR_map_memory2
  - VK_KHR_multiview
  - VK_KHR_pipeline_executable_properties
  - VK_KHR_pipeline_library
  - VK_KHR_present_id
  - VK_KHR_present_wait
  - VK_KHR_push_descriptor
  - VK_KHR_ray_query
  - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_maintenance1
  - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline
  - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch
  - VK_KHR_relaxed_block_layout
  - VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge
  - VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion
  - VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts
  - VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64
  - VK_KHR_shader_clock
  - VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters
  - VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8
  - VK_KHR_shader_float_controls
  - VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
  - VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info
  - VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types
  - VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow
  - VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation
  - VK_KHR_spirv_1_4
  - VK_KHR_storage_buffer_storage_class
  - VK_KHR_swapchain
  - VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format
  - VK_KHR_synchronization2
  - VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore
  - VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout
  - VK_KHR_variable_pointers
  - VK_KHR_video_decode_h264
  - VK_KHR_video_decode_h265
  - VK_KHR_video_decode_queue
  - VK_KHR_video_queue
  - VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model
  - VK_KHR_win32_keyed_mutex
  - VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout
  - VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory
  - VK_EXT_4444_formats
  - VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_dynamic_state
  - VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_layout
  - VK_EXT_blend_operation_advanced
  - VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle
  - VK_EXT_buffer_device_address
  - VK_EXT_calibrated_timestamps
  - VK_EXT_color_write_enable
  - VK_EXT_conditional_rendering
  - VK_EXT_conservative_rasterization
  - VK_EXT_custom_border_color
  - VK_EXT_depth_bias_control
  - VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one
  - VK_EXT_depth_clip_control
  - VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
  - VK_EXT_depth_range_unrestricted
  - VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer
  - VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing
  - VK_EXT_discard_rectangles
  - VK_EXT_dynamic_rendering_unused_attachments
  - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
  - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2
  - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3
  - VK_EXT_external_memory_host
  - VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock
  - VK_EXT_full_screen_exclusive
  - VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library
  - VK_EXT_hdr_metadata
  - VK_EXT_host_image_copy
  - VK_EXT_host_query_reset
  - VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d
  - VK_EXT_image_robustness
  - VK_EXT_image_sliced_view_of_3d
  - VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod
  - VK_EXT_index_type_uint8
  - VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block
  - VK_EXT_line_rasterization
  - VK_EXT_load_store_op_none
  - VK_EXT_memory_budget
  - VK_EXT_memory_priority
  - VK_EXT_mesh_shader
  - VK_EXT_multi_draw
  - VK_EXT_mutable_descriptor_type
  - VK_EXT_non_seamless_cube_map
  - VK_EXT_opacity_micromap
  - VK_EXT_pageable_device_local_memory
  - VK_EXT_pci_bus_info
  - VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control
  - VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback
  - VK_EXT_pipeline_library_group_handles
  - VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness
  - VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage
  - VK_EXT_primitive_topology_list_restart
  - VK_EXT_primitives_generated_query
  - VK_EXT_private_data
  - VK_EXT_provoking_vertex
  - VK_EXT_queue_family_foreign
  - VK_EXT_robustness2
  - VK_EXT_sample_locations
  - VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax
  - VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout
  - VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage
  - VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float
  - VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
  - VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
  - VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier
  - VK_EXT_shader_object
  - VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_ballot
  - VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_vote
  - VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer
  - VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control
  - VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
  - VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment
  - VK_EXT_tooling_info
  - VK_EXT_transform_feedback
  - VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
  - VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state
  - VK_EXT_ycbcr_2plane_444_formats
  - VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays
  - VK_NV_clip_space_w_scaling
  - VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives
  - VK_NV_cooperative_matrix
  - VK_NV_copy_memory_indirect
  - VK_NV_corner_sampled_image
  - VK_NV_coverage_reduction_mode
  - VK_NV_cuda_kernel_launch
  - VK_NV_dedicated_allocation
  - VK_NV_dedicated_allocation_image_aliasing
  - VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints
  - VK_NV_device_diagnostics_config
  - VK_NV_device_generated_commands
  - VK_NV_device_generated_commands_compute
  - VK_NV_external_memory
  - VK_NV_external_memory_win32
  - VK_NV_fill_rectangle
  - VK_NV_fragment_coverage_to_color
  - VK_NV_fragment_shader_barycentric
  - VK_NV_fragment_shading_rate_enums
  - VK_NV_framebuffer_mixed_samples
  - VK_NV_geometry_shader_passthrough
  - VK_NV_inherited_viewport_scissor
  - VK_NV_linear_color_attachment
  - VK_NV_low_latency
  - VK_NV_low_latency2
  - VK_NV_memory_decompression
  - VK_NV_mesh_shader
  - VK_NV_optical_flow
  - VK_NV_ray_tracing
  - VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder
  - VK_NV_ray_tracing_motion_blur
  - VK_NV_representative_fragment_test
  - VK_NV_sample_mask_override_coverage
  - VK_NV_scissor_exclusive
  - VK_NV_shader_image_footprint
  - VK_NV_shader_sm_builtins
  - VK_NV_shader_subgroup_partitioned
  - VK_NV_shading_rate_image
  - VK_NV_viewport_array2
  - VK_NV_viewport_swizzle
  - VK_NV_win32_keyed_mutex
  - VK_NVX_binary_import
  - VK_NVX_image_view_handle
  - VK_NVX_multiview_per_view_attributes
  - VK_AMD_buffer_marker

  - # of layers: 1
  - VK_LAYER_NV_optimus

  - # of memory heaps: 2
  - heap 1: 12010 MB
  - heap 2: 8148 MB

  - # of features: 55
  - robustBufferAccess:  YES
  - fullDrawIndexUint32:  YES
  - imageCubeArray:  YES
  - independentBlend:  YES
  - geometryShader:  YES
  - tessellationShader:  YES
  - sampleRateShading:  YES
  - dualSrcBlend:  YES
  - logicOp:  YES
  - multiDrawIndirect:  YES
  - drawIndirectFirstInstance:  YES
  - depthClamp:  YES
  - depthBiasClamp:  YES
  - fillModeNonSolid:  YES
  - depthBounds:  YES
  - wideLines:  YES
  - largePoints:  YES
  - alphaToOne:  YES
  - multiViewport:  YES
  - samplerAnisotropy:  YES
  - textureCompressionETC2:  NO
  - textureCompressionASTC_LDR:  NO
  - textureCompressionBC:  YES
  - occlusionQueryPrecise:  YES
  - pipelineStatisticsQuery:  YES
  - vertexPipelineStoresAndAtomics:  YES
  - fragmentStoresAndAtomics:  YES
  - shaderTessellationAndGeometryPointSize:  YES
  - shaderImageGatherExtended:  YES
  - shaderStorageImageExtendedFormats:  YES
  - shaderStorageImageMultisample:  YES
  - shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat:  YES
  - shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat:  YES
  - shaderUniformBufferArrayDynamicIndexing:  YES
  - shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing:  YES
  - shaderStorageBufferArrayDynamicIndexing:  YES
  - shaderStorageImageArrayDynamicIndexing:  YES
  - shaderClipDistance:  YES
  - shaderCullDistance:  YES
  - shaderFloat64:  YES
  - shaderInt64:  YES
  - shaderInt16:  YES
  - shaderResourceResidency:  YES
  - shaderResourceMinLod:  YES
  - sparseBinding:  YES
  - sparseResidencyBuffer:  YES
  - sparseResidencyImage2D:  YES
  - sparseResidencyImage3D:  YES
  - sparseResidency2Samples:  YES
  - sparseResidency4Samples:  YES
  - sparseResidency8Samples:  YES
  - sparseResidency16Samples:  YES
  - sparseResidencyAliased:  YES
  - variableMultisampleRate:  YES
  - inheritedQueries:  YES

  - # of hardware limits: 106
    - maxImageDimension1D: 32768
    - maxImageDimension2D: 32768
    - maxImageDimension3D: 16384
    - maxImageDimensionCube: 32768
    - maxImageArrayLayers: 2048
    - maxTexelBufferElements: 134217728
    - maxUniformBufferRange: 65536
    - maxStorageBufferRange: 4294967295
    - maxPushConstantsSize: 256
    - maxMemoryAllocationCount: 4096
    - maxSamplerAllocationCount: 4000
    - bufferImageGranularity: 1024
    - sparseAddressSpaceSize: 1099511627775
    - maxBoundDescriptorSets: 32
    - maxPerStageDescriptorSamplers: 1048576
    - maxSamplerAllocationCount: 1048576
    - maxPerStageDescriptorStorageBuffers: 1048576
    - maxPerStageDescriptorSampledImages: 1048576
    - maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages: 1048576
    - maxPerStageDescriptorInputAttachments: 1048576
    - maxPerStageResources: 4294967295
    - maxDescriptorSetSamplers: 1048576
    - maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers: 1048576
    - maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffersDynamic: 15
    - maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffers: 1048576
    - maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffersDynamic: 16
    - maxDescriptorSetSampledImages: 1048576
    - maxDescriptorSetStorageImages: 1048576
    - maxDescriptorSetInputAttachments: 1048576
    - maxVertexInputAttributes: 32
    - maxVertexInputBindings: 32
    - maxVertexInputAttributeOffset: 2047
    - maxVertexInputBindingStride: 2048
    - maxVertexOutputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationGenerationLevel: 64
    - maxTessellationPatchSize: 32
    - maxTessellationControlPerVertexInputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationControlPerVertexOutputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationControlPerPatchOutputComponents: 120
    - maxTessellationControlTotalOutputComponents: 4216
    - maxTessellationEvaluationInputComponents: 128
    - maxTessellationEvaluationOutputComponents: 128
    - maxGeometryShaderInvocations: 32
    - maxGeometryInputComponents: 128
    - maxGeometryOutputComponents: 128
    - maxGeometryOutputVertices: 1024
    - maxGeometryTotalOutputComponents: 1024
    - maxFragmentInputComponents: 128
    - maxFragmentOutputAttachments: 8
    - maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments: 1
    - maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources: 4294967295
    - maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 49152
    - maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 2147483647 x 65535 x 65535
    - maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations: 1024
    - maxComputeWorkGroupSize: 1024 x 1024 x 64
    - subPixelPrecisionBits: 8
    - subTexelPrecisionBits: 8
    - mipmapPrecisionBits: 8
    - maxDrawIndexedIndexValue: 4294967295
    - maxDrawIndirectCount: 4294967295
    - maxSamplerLodBias: 15.000000
    - maxSamplerAnisotropy: 16.000000
    - maxViewports: 16
    - maxViewportDimensions: 32768 x 32768
    - viewportBoundsRange: -65536.000000 x 65536.000000
    - viewportSubPixelBits: 8
    - minMemoryMapAlignment: 64
    - minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment: 16
    - minUniformBufferOffsetAlignment: 64
    - minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment: 16
    - minTexelOffset: -8
    - maxTexelOffset: 7
    - minTexelGatherOffset: -32
    - maxTexelGatherOffset: 31
    - minInterpolationOffset: -0.500000
    - maxInterpolationOffset: 0.437500
    - subPixelInterpolationOffsetBits: 4
    - maxFramebufferWidth: 32768
    - maxFramebufferHeight: 32768
    - maxFramebufferLayers: 2048
    - framebufferColorSampleCounts: 15
    - framebufferDepthSampleCounts: 15
    - framebufferStencilSampleCounts: 31
    - framebufferNoAttachmentsSampleCounts: 31
    - maxColorAttachments: 8
    - sampledImageColorSampleCounts: 15
    - sampledImageIntegerSampleCounts: 15
    - sampledImageDepthSampleCounts: 15
    - sampledImageStencilSampleCounts: 31
    - storageImageSampleCounts: 15
    - maxSampleMaskWords: 1
    - timestampComputeAndGraphics: 1
    - timestampPeriod: 1.000000
    - maxClipDistances: 8
    - maxCullDistances: 8
    - maxCombinedClipAndCullDistances: 8
    - discreteQueuePriorities: 2
    - pointSizeRange: 1.000000 x 2047.937500
    - lineWidthRange: 1.000000 x 64.000000
    - pointSizeGranularity: 0.062500
    - lineWidthGranularity: 0.062500
    - strictLines: 1
    - standardSampleLocations: 1
    - optimalBufferCopyOffsetAlignment: 1
    - optimalBufferCopyRowPitchAlignment: 1
    - nonCoherentAtomSize: 64

 

GeForce 545.92

Same Vulkan support.

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