

Also, the product life cycle and driver release cycles are shorter in case of gaming cards. The manufacturers of gaming cards (such as ASUS, Sapphire, Gigabyte, PNY, etc.) may diverge from the chip manufacturer's references. Professional cards (such as Nvidia Quadro and AMD FirePro) are built according to the chip manufacturer's references, so you can always be sure that the driver delivered by the chip manufacturer (e.g. Another key difference between the two product lines is the way they are delivered and supported. Also, professional cards' memory usage is optimized for using multiple application windows, while in gaming this is not relevant. Typically a 3D model in a game contains a low number of polygons with textures applied to them, while polygon count is high in CAD modeling, and the quality of the stationary image of the wireframe or the shaded model is more important than navigation speed. "Gamer" cards (such as Nvidia GeForce and AMD/ATI Radeon) are optimized for 3D games, where speed is more important than image quality/accuracy. While the hardware setup is very similar for both cards, there are main differences in their firmware and driver. Graphics card manufacturers typically have different product lines targeted for "gamers" and "professional content creation users". Such tools should only be used as the last resort for troubleshooting.Ĭertified Nvidia Quadro Windows 10 driver: 442.92 Release date 2020.04.16 Certified AMD FirePro and Radeon Pro driver: 20.Q2 Release date 2020.05.07 Nvidia GeForce driver win 10: NVIDIA Studio Driver 442.92 Release date: 2020.04.16 AMD Radeon driver: Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.5.1 Release Date 2020.05.27 In rare cases where vendor's uninstall operation is not possible, there are several tools that can help, like AMD's AMD Clean Uninstall Utility, third party tools like Driver Cleaner, Driver Fusion or gaming community's popular DDU Display Driver Uninstaller.

Both Nvidia and AMD provide "Clean-install" options with their driver installers. "Clean-install" means removing all previous driver files before installing a new driver. If you experience display issues with the drivers listed below, please "Clean-install" the driver again. It may happen that remnants of a previous installation interfere with the current driver installation.

Graphics cards only perform properly if they have a hardware vendor supplied driver (not system built-in driver) installed correctly.
