If you own one of Nvidia’s best graphics cards, the latest driver update might be an interesting one for you. According to users who downloaded the patch, the drivers bring an up to 8% boost in synthetic benchmarks. But, seeing as most of us don’t spend all of our time benchmarking our GPUs, what are the actual benefits of the 572.02 graphics driver?
The first reports of these driver improvements showed up on Reddit and were then picked up by publications like VideoCardz. Some users have found that they saw performance gains in synthetic benchmarks, ranging from 3% to 8%.
This isn’t something that happens often. Nvidia’s aim with this driver was to resolve a number of issues, including black screens, crashes, and overall stability problems. Performance gains weren’t mentioned as part of the update changelog.
Users are seeing various other benefits. Some claim to be seeing a slight improvement in frames per second (fps), and others note that the idle power consumption was reduced following the driver update. However, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows in those Reddit comments, because some users have also found that their GPUs aren’t doing quite as well as before.
One user who owns an MSI Shadow OC RTX 5080 GPU says that their card’s overclocking capabilities got worse after the patch. From a stable overclock of +400/+1,250, their GPU can now only hold +300/+800. Meanwhile, another user says that the latest driver caused “a ton of stuttering, frame loss, [and] weird clock behavior.”
It’s possible for all those stories to be true. Nvidia’s RTX cards might now fare better in benchmarks, but this doesn’t mean much in terms of gaming gains, and it’s hard to say what caused the crashes reported by a couple of users. We’ll be monitoring the situation and will keep you posted if there are any issues with the driver.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.