Among the notable improvements, the driver introduces a new environment variable, CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST, allowing users to disable CUDA’s default behavior of automatically boosting GPU clock speeds to higher power states during compute workloads.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/257493/

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    For virtualization users, the driver addresses a soft lockup issue involving the vfio-pci module, which could occur after powering off a virtual machine with a passed-through NVIDIA GPU. This fix improves reliability for users running GPU passthrough in environments such as KVM or QEMU.

    AMD friends watching from the sidelines

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      The good news is Nvidia consumer grade GPUs don’t even support vGPU and can’t be passed though if Host OS is using it.