NVidia Fermi Cards Get D3D 12 Support

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/03/2017 07:44 AM | source: | 18 comment(s)

If you are on an older card from the Fermi generation (400 and 500 series), then the new Nvidia driver might be intesresting for you. Fermi is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed byNvidia, first released to retail in April 2010, as the successor to the Tesla micro-architecture. It was the primary micro-architecture used in the GeForce 400 series and GeForce 500 series.

The new GeForce 384 series graphics drivers added DirectX 12 API support for such GPUs. Support stretches to Direct3D feature-level 12_0 games or applications, and completes WDDM 2.2 compliance for GeForce "Fermi" graphics cards on Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703).

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RealNC
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#5448922 Posted on: 07/03/2017 09:50 AM

Now we need some benches

Half-joking, actually. There's many people out there who still rock that 560 Ti at 720p

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#5448933 Posted on: 07/03/2017 11:04 AM

AntiSnipe
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#5448940 Posted on: 07/03/2017 11:25 AM

My GTX 460 is still rocking @ 1080p in my second rig. It's running Linux so I'm not too concerned about DX12, but hey, very cool that it could run it if needed.

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#5448942 Posted on: 07/03/2017 11:42 AM

Wow, that took them a little more time than expected. I've got an ultra slow GT 620 with Fermi GPU to test.
I believe now they have to bring async support for Maxwell cards. That's another thing they promised in the past, but haven't seen yet.

Nope. GT 620 (rebranded GT 430) still shows as DX 11. So, this DX12 support is at least questionable if true.

Hmmm... how do I delete stupid posts? Didn't tested under Windows 10.

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#5448948 Posted on: 07/03/2017 12:30 PM

Got rid of my bugged 460SE in 2013 because of lack of driver support.
Nvidia can kiss my ass.

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