I'm not sure if it's different for Nvidia, but the Gamer Nexus video about Intel drivers suggest a lot of the work getting good performance is done on the drive

I'm not sure if it's different for Nvidia, but the Gamer Nexus video about Intel drivers suggest a lot of the work getting good performance is done on the driver side for all GPU vendors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3BGu3vixk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3BGu3vixk