Nvidia has released updates today (Jan 9 2018) dealing with the issues. So I would assume there are risks since they have created updates. http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/390.65/390.65-win10-win8-win7-desktop-release-notes.pdf > Table 2.1 Security Updates for NVIDIA Software Vulnerabilities CVE ID > NVIDIA Issue Number Description CVE-2017-5753 1975134 Computer systems > with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch > prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an > attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. For more > information on this issue, see the NVIDIA GPU security updates for > speculative side channel Security Bulletin posted on the NVIDIA > Product Security page And specifically mentions GeForce in the aforementioned post http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4611 Affected Products Product | OS GeForce, Quadro, NVS | Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris Tesla | Windows, Linux