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NVIDIA Ends Driver Support for Kepler GPUs (GTX 700/600 Series) with R470 drivers
NVIDIA is moving Kepler GPUs towards legacy status, which means they'll be dropped from newer drivers starting at v470.
It's been nine years since NVIDIA announced its GeForce GTX 600 series of graphics cards, but the official support for GPUs based on a Kepler graphics chip (GeForce GTX 700/600 series) , will be stopped after the arrival of the R470 drivers. You'll be able to see that confirmed in the table below, which is available in the manufacturer's official support documents. Kepler enabled the GTX 600/700 series, which many will remember for the back then powerful GeForce GTX 780 Ti 6 GB GDDR5, which debuted an NVIDIA GK110B graphics chip in a 28nm manufacturing process from TSMC, offering a total of 2880 Shading Cores, 240 TMUs and 48 ROPs at a Base / Turbo frequency of 875/928 MHz. Together with its 384-bit memory bus, it gave a bandwidth of 336.6 GB / s, with a TDP of 250W.
Please do take note that the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and the GeForce GTX 750 are not based on the Kepler architecture, but on the Maxwell architecture and, therefore, will not be left without support after the R470 drivers.
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#5914845 Posted on: 05/24/2021 02:13 PM
Kepler has gotten support for the latest WDDM versions and Shader Model 6.5, and IME most DX11 and DX12 games ran as you'd reasonably expect. The games using Vulkan were bad though, Doom Eternal is infamous for having all of Kepler outperformed by the HD 7790.
I've never liked dropping support simply because "lol so old", but I can't say I'm surprised it happens at this point. Going by history, Nvidia might still take responsibility to fix security issues (though they never did consider anything serious enough to release any new drivers for Fermi)
The once high-end Kepler cards still run the majority of games better than they run on the PS4 and Xbox One.
For unsupported GPUs the immediate problem that could be problematic for normal users is if the next annual Windows 10 upgrade for some reason gets issues with older drivers. Though Microsoft did specifically fix the issues for AMD DX10 hardware when issues arose, so might not be something to worry about.
For games, there could be alot of the upcoming "simple" games, sidescrollers for example, that theoretically work on any DX11 capable GPU but is unfeasible to play due to driver issues that neither Nvidia nor the studios want to fix for the unsupported GPUs.
Lets be honest here nvidia ended the kepler support long time ago. Now its just official.
Kepler has gotten support for the latest WDDM versions and Shader Model 6.5, and IME most DX11 and DX12 games ran as you'd reasonably expect. The games using Vulkan were bad though, Doom Eternal is infamous for having all of Kepler outperformed by the HD 7790.
I've never liked dropping support simply because "lol so old", but I can't say I'm surprised it happens at this point. Going by history, Nvidia might still take responsibility to fix security issues (though they never did consider anything serious enough to release any new drivers for Fermi)
Can Kepler GPUs even run modern games? Do not see this as an issue at all really. You have to draw the line somewhere when coding a unified graphics driver the supports several generations of graphics cards. Kepler has had a good run. Dropping new driver support for Kepler does not stop people playing older games on the existing drivers.
The once high-end Kepler cards still run the majority of games better than they run on the PS4 and Xbox One.
For unsupported GPUs the immediate problem that could be problematic for normal users is if the next annual Windows 10 upgrade for some reason gets issues with older drivers. Though Microsoft did specifically fix the issues for AMD DX10 hardware when issues arose, so might not be something to worry about.
For games, there could be alot of the upcoming "simple" games, sidescrollers for example, that theoretically work on any DX11 capable GPU but is unfeasible to play due to driver issues that neither Nvidia nor the studios want to fix for the unsupported GPUs.
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#5914849 Posted on: 05/24/2021 02:37 PM
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#5914851 Posted on: 05/24/2021 02:48 PM
Just because the support has ended it doesn´t meant that the cards are automatically useless.
People can still continue to use them until they upgrade.
Just because the support has ended it doesn´t meant that the cards are automatically useless.
People can still continue to use them until they upgrade.
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#5914857 Posted on: 05/24/2021 02:57 PM
Kepler has gotten support for the latest WDDM versions and Shader Model 6.5, and IME most DX11 and DX12 games ran as you'd reasonably expect. The games using Vulkan were bad though, Doom Eternal is infamous for having all of Kepler outperformed by the HD 7790.
I've never liked dropping support simply because "lol so old", but I can't say I'm surprised it happens at this point. Going by history, Nvidia might still take responsibility to fix security issues (though they never did consider anything serious enough to release any new drivers for Fermi)
The once high-end Kepler cards still run the majority of games better than they run on the PS4 and Xbox One.
For unsupported GPUs the immediate problem that could be problematic for normal users is if the next annual Windows 10 upgrade for some reason gets issues with older drivers. Though Microsoft did specifically fix the issues for AMD DX10 hardware when issues arose, so might not be something to worry about.
For games, there could be alot of the upcoming "simple" games, sidescrollers for example, that theoretically work on any DX11 capable GPU but is unfeasible to play due to driver issues that neither Nvidia nor the studios want to fix for the unsupported GPUs.
gtx780 ended up slower than 7970 which is funny considering it was competing with 290 4GB at the time. Also, Kepler gpus cant run RE8 becouse it has only DX FL11.1 but if you install 4year old driver it can actually run the game. DX is not the problem so it means nvidia did something within the driver that prevented kepler gpus running the game.
"368 drivers for 600 and 700 series You must use from 2016 if you want to play resident evil village demo on 600 or 700 nvidia series gpu"
Kepler has gotten support for the latest WDDM versions and Shader Model 6.5, and IME most DX11 and DX12 games ran as you'd reasonably expect. The games using Vulkan were bad though, Doom Eternal is infamous for having all of Kepler outperformed by the HD 7790.
I've never liked dropping support simply because "lol so old", but I can't say I'm surprised it happens at this point. Going by history, Nvidia might still take responsibility to fix security issues (though they never did consider anything serious enough to release any new drivers for Fermi)
The once high-end Kepler cards still run the majority of games better than they run on the PS4 and Xbox One.
For unsupported GPUs the immediate problem that could be problematic for normal users is if the next annual Windows 10 upgrade for some reason gets issues with older drivers. Though Microsoft did specifically fix the issues for AMD DX10 hardware when issues arose, so might not be something to worry about.
For games, there could be alot of the upcoming "simple" games, sidescrollers for example, that theoretically work on any DX11 capable GPU but is unfeasible to play due to driver issues that neither Nvidia nor the studios want to fix for the unsupported GPUs.
gtx780 ended up slower than 7970 which is funny considering it was competing with 290 4GB at the time. Also, Kepler gpus cant run RE8 becouse it has only DX FL11.1 but if you install 4year old driver it can actually run the game. DX is not the problem so it means nvidia did something within the driver that prevented kepler gpus running the game.
"368 drivers for 600 and 700 series You must use from 2016 if you want to play resident evil village demo on 600 or 700 nvidia series gpu"
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Can Kepler GPUs even run modern games? Do not see this as an issue at all really. You have to draw the line somewhere when coding a unified graphics driver the supports several generations of graphics cards. Kepler has had a good run. Dropping new driver support for Kepler does not stop people playing older games on the existing drivers.