Cuda Driver Release News Exclusive -
This is an —specifically the unannounced features, the silent performance regressions, and the architectural shifts of the R550+ driver branch (version 555.85.05 and its enterprise siblings). The "Stealth" Update: R555.85.05 Breakdown Two weeks ago, NVIDIA quietly pushed a new Production Branch driver to its developer portal without a typical blog post fanfare. Our analysis of the release notes (or lack thereof) reveals a build that is less about game-ready optimizations and entirely focused on two things: AI inference latency and virtualized memory paging .
Published: Exclusive Analysis
"The driver was shredding the MIG configuration on any soft reset. We’d wake up to find our A100s split into 7 instances, but only 1 was addressable," the source told us. "This new driver fixes that, but they had to rewrite the MIG scheduler from scratch." cuda driver release news exclusive