Does installing CUDA drivers affect performance on other computer use cases?
If I would, for example, play games and do my AI projects on the same computer with CUDA drivers installed, would the other(than CUDA) usecase performance be worse than with the out-of-the-box driver?
Installing the CUDA driver package has no impact on performance.
If you run CUDA-accelerated apps and graphical applications at the same time, on the same GPU, there are of course performance interactions, as the GPU represents a shared resource. To first order, at any given time, the GPU can execute either graphics code or CUDA code.
How much performance impact you are going to experience in practical terms will depend very much on the particular graphics / computational apps running concurrently, the GPU used, and overall system configuration.
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