They're pushing the full-fat GSP firmware (all 60-odd megabytes of it) to linux-firmware soon, and allowing nouveau to call into it for reclocking support, so hopefully things will be less terrible for 20xx users and up.
Are you using Wayland? I'm curious since it seems like most people I've discussed with have confirmed that the 545 drivers improved things for them. I thought they might actually have fixed/improved the experience for most Wayland users but I guess things are never that simple!
I have heard these reports too but I haven’t noticed any differences in behavior by driver version. All the bugs I mention are the same ones before and after the latest beta that everyone said improved things. I imagine they fixed some particularly visible problem although I haven’t seen it. Maybe most people are on laptops and their laptop chip got some fix for an issue impacting those users? Not sure but that’s one obvious difference that might separate me. The other is that my CPU is the 13900k without an Intel GPU and I imagine most people opt for iGPU integrated (I didn’t see the point of it when running a desktop and I had enough of bad experience with Intel+Nvidia on the laptop side of things for the past 2 years with that configuration that I decided my sanity was better this way).
Yes, wayland. With driver 545 as soon as my screen goes black (due to inactivity), it never goes out of that state anymore and I have to do a hard reboot.
Also, NVIDIA nukes the open drivers by providing a crippled firmware for them, but this is another story.