Nvidia choking 1070's. BS?

[StarsMars]

Read a comment saying that Nvidia was releasing drivers to reduce the performance of 1070s to encourage sales of rtx cards.

Sounds like bs, but thought I'd ask.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

even if they would, simple solution is to just grab an older driver so who cares

[StarsMars]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

even if they would, simple solution is to just grab an older driver so who cares

Me. I would care if they were sabotaging their products.

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

1 minute ago, StarsMars said:

Me. I would care if they were sabotaging their products.

if they are , just sell it and go amd, im not a nvidia fan or amd fan,  i just tend to go with nvidia more due to pre rendered frames settings ect, if they will pull these things off i will buy next card amd instead of nvidia, however i sitll wouldnt care if i had a current 1070 and just use older drivers

[Arika]

that would be highly illegal, so not very likely

[Skiiwee29]

BS and has been disproved before. This is a theory that always comes around. 

 

 

 

[StarsMars]

2 minutes ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

if they are , just sell it and go amd, im not a nvidia fan or amd fan,  i just tend to go with nvidia more due to pre rendered frames settings ect, if they will pull these things off i will buy next card amd instead of nvidia, however i sitll wouldnt care if i had a current 1070 and just use older drivers

I see what you're saying, but that doesn't mean them [possibly] doing it is okay.

Just now, Arika S said:

that would be highly illegal, so not very likely

I mean.. Apple does it.

[StarsMars]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

BS and has been disproved before. This is a theory that always comes around. 

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Thank you sir.

[Chronified]

No, it's illegal. 

Remember when Apple throttled their iPhones so the "battery will last longer" on aging models? Remember the class action lawsuit? I highly doubt that Nvidia would pull the same thing, just based on how close they are to losing marketshare to AMDs more competitive options. 

 

This also doesn't make sense as Raytracing has improved drastically with every major driver update released since RTX cards came out. I'm seeing it go the way of AntiAliasing, when it originally came out, enabling even 2x took a HUGE performance hit (just like ray tracing), but over time with optimizations and driver releases, we barely see any FPS difference (5-10%) enabling 8x or even 16x AA. Over time ray tracing will do the same and the preformance hit will decrease as optimizations come via drivers and later revisions/generations of GPUs come out.

 

TL;DR no it's illegal and defeats the purpose of driver updates by definition 

[schwellmo92]

29 minutes ago, StarsMars said:

I mean.. Apple does it.

No they don't. And doing what you're discussing is illegal.

[Stormseeker9]

4 minutes ago, schwellmo92 said:

No they don't. And doing what you're discussing is illegal.

They did. Massive lawsuit. Now they are not. (Something with older iPhones slowing them down due to ‘battery’ absolute bollocks of course )

[pizapower]

YouTube is full of AMD fanboys who spread BS like this.

[schwellmo92]

7 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

They did. Massive lawsuit. Now they are not. (Something with older iPhones slowing them down due to ‘battery’ absolute bollocks of course )

They still do what you're talking about, it has nothing down with intentionally slowing down older devices. After your battery is at 80% maximum capacity the amount of power that can be drawn is limited as the battery is unable to supply the amount of power required under heavy load, especially as it depletes throughout the day, you can simply replace the battery and you're back to 100% performance.

[Jurrunio]

Nah it's more like lack of optimization for new stuff on old cards. Old games still run the same.

[pizapower]

Jurrunio,  I love your ''What's under the heatsink?'' list.