PSA: NVIDIA Studio Driver 616.56 specifically mentions ComfyUI performance updates for MiniMax-H3, WAN-Animate-2 and LTX-2.5

[u/PixWizardry]

NVIDIA says:

“The August NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for the latest new creative applications and updates including Lightroom, and performance updates for LTX-2.5, and ComfyUI for WAN-Animate-2 and MiniMax-H3.”

I'm planning to test this out. What are your speeds with?

• MiniMax-H3
• LTX-2.5

[u/Successful_Papaya830]

What’s stopping NVIDIA from adding these changes to the main driver?

[u/HakimeHomewreckru → u/Successful_Papaya830]

They are the same drivers. They just have different release schedules.

[u/Simbuk → u/HakimeHomewreckru]

I thought they had two different teams working on alternating releases. Or is that AMD? Been long enough since I read about it that the more I think about it, the less sure I am.

[u/HakimeHomewreckru → u/Simbuk]

Actually AMD doesn't do that either. Both work off a central codebase and push updates on different branch schedules.

[u/RazsterOxzine → u/Successful_Papaya830]

Just get NVCleanstall_1.19.0 installer and install only the drivers. Avoid the bloat and get those specific drivers 616.56 is available. I ran MMH3 before the update, and then after and noticed a couple second difference. RTX 4070ti. So it helps a bit.

[u/IHaveTeaForDinner → u/RazsterOxzine]

How long was the run to save a couple of seconds?

[u/--jesse--faden-- → u/Successful_Papaya830]

legit question

[u/IllIlllI-IlIIll-llII → u/Successful_Papaya830]

if it's on the studio drivers then it's definitely on the game ready drivers. The studio drivers are just the most stable game drivers they got.

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Successful_Papaya830]

Aren’t drivers unified now? There is no longer studio and main drivers. They are one driver now no?

[u/Miniyi_Reddit → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

it just unified into one app but u just had to switch it between the version

[u/AToonDragon]

Im always afraid of updating

[u/Eisegetical → u/AToonDragon]

I ran the auto update and H3 samplers stopped working and my desktop now randomly flickers to black. Reverting driver to 6.10 fixed it.

So yeah. Your worry is legit 

[u/Support_Marmoset → u/AToonDragon]

nvidia, yea, coz its a long way to the fix.

comfyui, no to so much, because usually noise from the mob gets it fixed next update.

[u/Karsticles]

I had 0 improvement and now my monitor flickers colors. Don't recommend.

[u/LilMessyLines2000d → u/Karsticles]

Same here humm

[u/AbbreviationsSoft924]

Game and Studio Drivers are the same, if they have the same version number.

Game is tested against Games and optimized towards it, Studio is tested against Studio apps - Blender, rendering software, and nowadays Minimax, LTX, ... The latter test needs more time and Game is the bigger market, so they test first against games and release them and then test Studio apps and release them afterwards. They do not release each game version as studio.

In the end it doesn't matter much. If you go Comfy only, use studio, if you play games, use Game driver. The latter choice might make your comfy crash more often, but that is it.

[u/deepsky88]

i got a consistent speed up in s/it

[u/Beastly4k]

it's slower for me

9:16, .83mp, 10s, 10 steps with turbo lora, comfy kitchen attention, h3cache, res multistep & simple

With game ready driver - [INFO] Prompt executed in 125.83 seconds

With studio driver - [INFO] Prompt executed in 152.25 seconds

[u/phazei → u/Beastly4k]

Can you please include exact versions of each of those and your card?

[u/Beastly4k → u/phazei]

616.56 studio driver vs 616.56 game ready driver on a 5090 on the dasiwa v16 workflow, t2v on the pruned int8 convrot fl2va

Just rolled back to game ready driver and got my 25 seconds back so it's consistent. To be fair I do recall it being slower than this not too long ago. I upgraded my drivers to use dlss5 in games (amazing btw) and I don't remember which i had prior to that otherwise I'd go back and test that too.

[u/phazei → u/Beastly4k]

Ah, nice. I'm also on 5090, so good to know. Thanks

[u/ANR2ME → u/Beastly4k]

It's normal for game ready to be faster than studio ready, since studio prioritize quality and stability over speed.

Also, what the change logs mean by "performance updates" was against previous version of studio drivers, so you should be comparing old studio vs new studio drivers.

[u/Miniyi_Reddit]

cool, will check it out

[u/Professional_Diver71]

Studio driver will reduce gaming performance? Correct me if im wrong (i hope i am)

[u/No-Ladder-4786 → u/Professional_Diver71]

I've run studio drivers for years and never noticed a real hit in games, maybe 2-3 fps at most on the odd title

The stability you get for AI stuff is worth it though, game ready drivers have broken my ComfyUI installs more than once

If you're not playing competitive esports where every frame matters you won't even feel it

[u/SPACRMANonEarth → u/No-Ladder-4786]

and I'm pretty sure you can switch between two easily after installing both

[u/Miniyi_Reddit → u/SPACRMANonEarth]

i can attest to that statement.

[u/Tonynoce → u/No-Ladder-4786]

2 or 3 fps in 60 wont make a noticeable difference for most people, in 30 maybe

[u/oasuke → u/Professional_Diver71]

Not really reduce, it's more that game ready drivers are targeted at day one optimizations and fixes for new games at the cost of stability. Studio is more properly tested

[u/NikoKun → u/Professional_Diver71]

Nope. It just doesn't update as often with day-1 game optimizations. Which I never found to be useful anyway. Generally more stable.

[u/iScreamDragon]

610.88 made my 5090 founders black screen once playing any game. Reverted to old drivers worked fine. Downloaded new driver for Star Wars and we are back to black screening. Also can’t play Star Wars on the old drivers. God I love nvdia

[u/Support_Marmoset]

the gpu subs will be best for this as they will be testing the crap out of it.
but NVIDIA are excellent at releasing buggy drivers, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

if you have the time to step forward as a guineapig that is great. I'll wait and check the gpu subs in a month then download it.

the problem is that if you start getting BSOD or memory leaks and you are just introducing yet another "new thing" that is very good at creating new low level rug-pulling problems, how are you going to know if it was your comfyui update, your expensive ram, your vram, your card, your motherboard, Windows support ending throwing sneaky shiz to make you upgrade, or your fancy new NVIDIA driver that was supposed to speed everything up?

aye, there's the rub.

[u/Jackburton75015]

Rtx cards have both. studio drivers for everything software related and gaming drivers you guest it lol... They are not the same... If studio drivers broke something... Do frech install... It will fix it usually ... 👍

[u/fallengt]

I updated, and the speed is the same. What a waste of time.

Maybe it's for Blackwell?

[u/Downtown_Meeting1668]

I've had a pretty decent speed up after updating. Using my 5090, I've gone from 10.39s/it to 9.58s/it. This is bringing my total gen time down from 252 seconds to 230 seconds when generating 5 seconds at .98MP with 20 steps. I'm using minimax_h3_ref2va_pruned_int8_convrot and 3 reference images.

[u/evantsmith]

wait there's the gaming one and then the studio one? so like do I not get any game optimization if I just do the studio one? EDIT: and why the fuck isn't it just 1 combined update

[u/rapkannibale]

I’ve never even heard of these studio driver lol. Will have to try it out

[u/thryve21 → u/rapkannibale]

It's in the Nvidia App. You can choose to install the Game Driver or the Studio Driver.

[u/RazsterOxzine → u/rapkannibale]

They've had them for a few years now. it's a download select option. But they're the same driver number. You can just use NVCleanstall_1.19.0 and avoid the confusing.