I've just come across this article in Puget Systems, which discusses and tests Nvidia's recent driver options for Content Creators (i.e. Photoshop, Premiere Pro etc.)
As far as I can tell, it is not ground breaking, but might reduce some of the 'issues' we get from the way too frequent Nvidia driver updates which are driven by new game releases. Puget Systems did not find significant performance gains with the tests they did with Photoshop and Premiere Pro, but if I am reading it right, there was an increase with Blender, so good news for Dave.
To make use of the Creator Ready drivers, there is apparently a check box in Geforce Experience, but I know that a lot of this forum's regular posters prefer not to clog up their systems with that app. So we would use the Driver Download Page which has a new drop-down option. If you are also a gamer, then I guess you would choose the Game Ready Driver option.
I am still using a GTX970 in my i9-7900X system with driver 419.17, and the above search tool did not find a better driver option for me. If I search, instead, for a Game Read driver, then it does find a newer driver, which is what we would expect seeing that Creator Ready drivers are going to get additional testing, and that this is a new development.
I've had this system for over a year now, and had intended updating the GPU before now, but I am not a gamer, and Puget Systems is finding no advantage with newer GPUs. Having said that, and with what my current system cost me (a lot! 
) it seems daft to hold on to the GTX970, and I think I can justify an RTX2070, or at the very least, an RTX2060.
You can see how close the GPUs com in this relative performance graphic, I have selected 'some' of the results from THIS Puget Systems article Even the Intel onboard graphics does not take a huge hit with Photoshop, but I am wondering if that is as simple as PS are making it out to be. Perhaps the bottom line is that if a function that requires the GPU works, then it will work OK regardless.
(Click to expand, or see the full chart and others HERE)
I'd be interested in the thoughts of anyone using an RTX GPU, but I can't think how we could look at the relative performance given all the other probable system differences.
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