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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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#5914896 Posted on: 05/24/2021 04:58 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.
Exactly this - it's not like these GPUs have been optimized much for the past few years anyway. Also, I think they're still going to be updated as legacy drivers. So, you'll still see security updates.
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.
Exactly this - it's not like these GPUs have been optimized much for the past few years anyway. Also, I think they're still going to be updated as legacy drivers. So, you'll still see security updates.
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#5914898 Posted on: 05/24/2021 05:06 PM
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're doing something wrong.
I went from a 680 to 1070.
I'll extend your post to clarify what's hidden between the lines:
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're poor.
Unlike you poor people, I am wealthy and spending money on renewing my GPU isn't a luxury, but a small portion of my disposable income, and thus I went from a 680 to 1070.
There. Far clearer now.
If that wasn't what you meant, I'm pretty hard-pressed to find any other kind of plausible interpretation.
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're doing something wrong.
I went from a 680 to 1070.
I'll extend your post to clarify what's hidden between the lines:
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're poor.
Unlike you poor people, I am wealthy and spending money on renewing my GPU isn't a luxury, but a small portion of my disposable income, and thus I went from a 680 to 1070.
There. Far clearer now.
If that wasn't what you meant, I'm pretty hard-pressed to find any other kind of plausible interpretation.
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#5914911 Posted on: 05/24/2021 05:58 PM
I'd be ok with this if we weren't still facing exorbitant GPU prices and new GPU scarcity due to the cryptocoin mining craze.
Really poor form Nvidia. You can do better than this.
I'd be ok with this if we weren't still facing exorbitant GPU prices and new GPU scarcity due to the cryptocoin mining craze.
Really poor form Nvidia. You can do better than this.
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#5914954 Posted on: 05/24/2021 08:04 PM
I'll extend your post to clarify what's hidden between the lines:
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're poor.
Unlike you poor people, I am wealthy and spending money on renewing my GPU isn't a luxury, but a small portion of my disposable income, and thus I went from a 680 to 1070.
There. Far clearer now.
If that wasn't what you meant, I'm pretty hard-pressed to find any other kind of plausible interpretation.
No. It literally means what he said: you're doing something wrong. Although I disagree with him on that: plenty of great games can be played with 680.
Your theory that he's showing off with 5 yr old midrange GPU makes no sense whatsoever
I'll extend your post to clarify what's hidden between the lines:
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're poor.
Unlike you poor people, I am wealthy and spending money on renewing my GPU isn't a luxury, but a small portion of my disposable income, and thus I went from a 680 to 1070.
There. Far clearer now.
If that wasn't what you meant, I'm pretty hard-pressed to find any other kind of plausible interpretation.
No. It literally means what he said: you're doing something wrong. Although I disagree with him on that: plenty of great games can be played with 680.
Your theory that he's showing off with 5 yr old midrange GPU makes no sense whatsoever
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Just a small correction to the article: Most 780 Ti were 3 GB variants. 6 GB variants were extremely rare. You had better chances of getting a GTX Titan Black that had 6 GBs of VRAM than a 780 Ti.