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Hey everyone! I was just skimming through some inference benchmarks of other people and noticed the driver version is usually mentioned. It made me wonder how relevant this is. My prod server runs Debian 12 so the packaged nvidia drivers are rather old, but I'd prefer not to mess with the drivers if it won't bring a benefit. Does any of you have any experience or did do some testing?

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[โ€“] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you using open drivers or the binary proprietary ones? As I understand it with open drivers most of the work is in the Mesa user space and trying hand built versions of that is a lot easier.

[โ€“] robber@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I use the the proprietary ones from Nvidia, they're at 535 on oldstable IIRC but there are a lot newer ones.