They are the same thing.

EVGA just offers the latest WHQL drivers on their website for your convenience.  They're sometimes one behind, but for the latest or beta, Nvidia's website is a better resource.

Yes, the drivers are the same whether you d/l them from EVGA, Major Geeks, Guru3D or wherever..I always just go to NVIDIA Driver Download as dwoodward suggests..There you can d/l the latest driver as well as Beta and Archived Drivers.

I've been led to this thread as I have been experiencing some severe TDR issues with my GTX980 SC, particularly in project CARS (would TDR every 10 minutes or so) and far cry 4.  I've tried everything that has been suggested by the internet and EVGA so far to the point where EVGA have agreed an RMA on the card.  However, just to eliminate another possible cause, I installed the driver that came on the CD with the card a few days ago.  It's an older version, obviously, 344.60, but I hadn't had a TDR since.  Today, I updated the driver to the latest nVidia driver, 5 seconds into my first race on Project CARS and bosh, black screen, game still playing in the background.  All too familiar.  DDU'd the drivers off my system and went back to the EVGA supplied driver from the CD and bingo, no more TDR's.  I'm now wondering if EVGA versions of the driver are tweaked by them.  I'm going to try their latest version, 353.30 I believe, and see if it makes a difference.
 
If anybody else is having TDR issues with an EVGA card, I would suggest you give this a try.

TRY THIS ONE:
 
https://forums.geforce.co...-hotfix-driver-353-38/
 
 
http://nvidia.custhelp.co...swers/detail/a_id/3694

nVidia did release a 'hotfix' driver to deal with all of the TDR problems as listed by Pgcmoore above.
 

Hmm, this hotfix, fingers crossed, might have done the trick.  I certainly hope so.  Thanks for all the help people and apologies to OP for the hijack.

Zuhl3156

defileddragon
Hmm, this hotfix, fingers crossed, might have done the trick.  I certainly hope so.  Thanks for all the help people and apologies to OP for the hijack.

This thread was last posted to in 2010. I don't think you have to worry about hijacking it. LOL

So it was lol, didn't notice that.

I got about an hour in last night before bed time without any TDR's, which is encouraging, but I'll need to do some more testing before I'm confident again.  I've delayed my RMA for a couple of weeks while I test these new drivers.  Since I upgraded to the 980 I've not had more than a day or so without a TDR, so if I can get a couple of weeks out of it I'll be confident it's not the card.  To be honest, I'm really surprised so many people have been having issues with 9x series cards for the past few months and nVidia haven't attempted to address it until now, assuming it is a driver issue of course.

Already done ;)