NVIDIA issues new GPU drivers to guard against Spectre exploit (Updated)

Updated i:30 p.thou ET: This story initially stated that the flaw was with NVIDIA'southward hardware, which was incorrect. Every bit NVIDIA previously stated, its hardware appears to be immune to Meltdown and Spectre, and the driver updates are meant to guard against the CPU security issue. We regret this error and the story has been updated.

NVIDIA has released an update (via Reuters) for its GPU driver software to mitigate attacks based on speculative side aqueduct execution, shoring upward its software against the Spectre exploit that has that has rocked chipmakers like Intel, AMD, and ARM since its disclosure last week.

According to NVIDIA, drivers for its GeForce, NVS, Tesla, Quadro, and Filigree fries are affected past the first Spectre variant and are "potentially afflicted" by the second. The company says that information technology is not susceptible to the tertiary variant, dubbed Meltdown.

Fixes are now available for the drivers powering NVIDIA'due south GeForce, Quadro, NVS, and Tesla chips, but patches aren't expected for some Tesla and GRID products until later in January, NVIDIA says. Though Microsoft has warned that fixes for Spectre and Meltdown could hinder performance, NVIDIA hasn't detailed any potential performance degradation for its own patches.

Following the disclosure of the flaws last calendar week, Microsoft was quick to upshot its own emergency fixes, and chipmakers have followed suit. The process hasn't been without its issues, however; Microsoft chose to break its patch rollout for some AMD systems later it was reported that the fixes caused some older Athlon-based PCs to go unbootable.

If you have an NVIDIA GPU in your PC, you lot should be able to catch the Spectre patch now via NVIDIA'southward GeForce Feel software or via NVIDIA's driver update page.

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