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The gsp firmware tag on WindowsForum.com covers Nvidia's GPU System Processor, the embedded RISC-V core that handles low-level GPU management on Turing-generation and newer RTX cards. Discussion here focuses on how GSP firmware shifts kernel-driver functions off the host and onto the GPU itself, making driver installation and updates firmware-dependent rather than purely software-driven. The thread examines Nvidia's open kernel-module code and RISC-V Summit material to explain what this means for PC owners running RTX hardware on Windows, including why driver packages now carry firmware components and how that changes troubleshooting and update expectations.
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    Nvidia GSP Makes RTX Driver Updates Firmware-Dependent

    Nvidia’s GPU System Processor, or GSP, has moved a substantial slice of low-level GPU management out of the host-side graphics driver and onto RISC-V cores inside the GPU itself. That is the practical finding behind XDA Developers’ examination of Nvidia firmware and open kernel-module code, and...