NVIDIA Ends Driver Support for Kepler GPUs (GTX 700/600 Series) with R470 drivers
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alanm
Just when Kepler owners are in dire need for an upgrade with zero availability of new GPUs.
The Goose
Yeah...not the greatest timing.
TheDeeGee
Holding on to Kepler that long... you're doing something wrong.
I went from a 680 to 1070.
Lebon30
That's me right there... I had a GTX680 with a i7 950 which was a good fit. I transferred it over to my new Ryzen build because of shitty availability...
Undying
Lets be honest here nvidia ended the kepler support long time ago. Now its just official.
Darren Hodgson
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.
Yxskaft
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.
squalles
finally
H83
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.
Undying
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"
Cryio
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.
schmidtbag
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.
heffeque
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.
PTCruiserGT
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.
Noisiv
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 🙄
Venix
Well they killed it a lot earlier really...
Youkinen
There were 6GB models? Damn, was about to comment on the memory size but I guess it's technically correct then. 😀
I'm still rocking a 780ti (I had two, but the other one I got second hand recently passed away 🙁) in one of my "side" PCs, but I'll have to call it back
from "retirement" since I sold my primary 2070 card. Got back what I originally paid for it 2,5 years ago and I still have a 980ti in my secondary
rig so I think I'll manage another year or so, so maybe the prices have calmed down a little by then.
780ti was a damn good card. Also the most expensive I have ever bought. 😀
rl66
And they finish the stock of GT 710, 720, 730 with high price of 80 Euro the 1G and over 100 Euro the 2G due to shortage...
Well done.
cucaulay malkin
define run
they can launch them
but 1080p/30fps would be the ceiling
one that'll you be able to hit consistently tho
some are fine with it
rl66
You forget the GTX 745 and GT 745 that are Maxwell too.
