The GeForce RTX 4090 is here (check out our full review), and it's an absolute monster when it comes to 4K gaming - offering on average a 1.8X performance increase over the previous flagship the GeForce RTX 3090. And with that NVIDIA has naturally dropped the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver in time for the new hardware launch.

Which, as per the headline, adds some significant improvements to DirectX 12 rendering and performance - available for all GeForce RTX GPU owners. As per NVIDIA, "shader compilation optimisation, reduced CPU overhead, and Resizable BAR profiles for Forza Horizon 5 and F1 22" improve performance in situations where the CPU might be a bottleneck. Here's the summary of the performance boosts coming with the latest driver, and they are impressive.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: up to 25% (1080p)

Battlefield 2042: up to 7% (1080p)

Borderlands 3: Up to 8% (1080p)

Call of Duty: Vanguard: up to 12% (4K)

Control: up to 6% (4K)

Cyberpunk 2077: up to 20% (1080p)

F1 22: up to 17% (4K)

Far Cry 6: up to 5% (1440p)

Forza Horizon 5: up to 8% (1080P)

Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition: up to 8% (4k)

Red Dead Redemption 2: up to 7% (1080p)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: up to 5% (1080p)

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: up to 5% (1080p)

Watch Dogs: Legion: up to 9% (1440p)

The new driver also gets you Game Ready for A Plague Tale: Requiem (DLSS 3), Gotham Knights (DLSS 2), Scorn, and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DLSS 2). The GeForce RTX 4090 is available now globally and the new GeForce Game Ready 522.25 WHQL driver is available via the GeForce Experience app.