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    Ngreedia going for Apple route

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Danishblunt, Oct 8, 2018.

  1. Danishblunt

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    Remember when apple made a software upgrade to nerf older smartphones to force people to puchase new ones?



    Ngreedia does it too. :confused:

    @Mr. Fox



    GTX 980TI equal to GTX 1060 with new drivers :mad:
     
    Danishblunt, Oct 8, 2018
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    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    Well, with v411.70 performance in ACOd actually increased on 970 lol :D.
    But yeah, usually I don't update drivers because of the way nVidia does their business...
     
    killkenny1, Oct 8, 2018
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    thegreatsquare Notebook Deity

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    Same here, though my being lazy plays role too. I just updated to 411.70 from 397.31.
     
    thegreatsquare, Oct 8, 2018
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    At least they aren't nerfing the 10 series...
     
    hfm, Oct 11, 2018
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  5. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    Every time this gets claimed, a credible tech site comes along with extensive testing that proves Nvidia has not nerfed its older cards in newer drivers.
     
    Kevin, Oct 12, 2018
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    Agreed. It would be monumentally stupid for them to do so. Credible people would easily find out quickly.

    If it did happen it would most likely be a bug.
     
    hfm, Oct 12, 2018
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    hmscott, Oct 12, 2018
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    I wouldn't think any OEM in their right mind would do such a thing. What really happens is that overtime they stop caring and optimizing the SW for newer HW.

    This will never stop.
     
    MahmoudDewy, Oct 13, 2018
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    that doesn't make sense.If you optimize drivers you don't touch the older architectures.
     
    Danishblunt, Oct 13, 2018
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    yeah, and we're talking a couple/few percent there at best unless a specific game is implementing a feature that previous GPU generations are not good at. Usually you can turn those off, no game dev wants to alienate the majority that are not keeping up every time a new GPU generation is released.
     
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    Lmao
     
    Danishblunt, Oct 15, 2018
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    They don't gimp anything, Nvidia just gives up on optimizing their drivers, while AMD continues.

    edit: I was wrong

     
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    Wow! I can't believe this is happening... First lacklustering release of RTX series, now this? I'm baffled at nVidia's greed.
     
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    The new NEW driver afterwards alreayd fixed this. So no there is no nerf in place, as long if you have the real latest drivers.
     
    rinneh, Oct 27, 2018
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    A driver having slower performance than an older one does not mean you should immediately make the leap to the conclusion that Nvidia has purposely nerfed the card.

    The average age around here is way too high for people to not be using the logical portions of their minds.
     
    Kevin, Oct 29, 2018
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