GTX980 Perfomance dropdown?

[X09]

so, that's the question, since the GTX 1060 came out, I've noticed a little dropdown in the performance of my 980

since 1060 is the new tecnology and they want to sell it, it could be they did something via the drivers to "sabotage" the 980

I want to ask if anyone else has noticed something similar or maybe it´s just my system

[Renton577]

I do have some friends noticing a drop in performance with their 980's I personally own a Titan Black and have seen much worse issues though since the release of the 1060, the exact update that came out with support for the laptop 1060 my Titan Black no longer works correctly with some DX12 applications, some not working at all and some seeming to get stuck between two frames and only moving when holding Alt+Tab but going back to frozen when releasing the buttons. I don't really think this is driver "sabotage" but rather that Nvidia just doesnt care about anything but their current cards so they just stop making improvements to the older cards. One thing is for sure I will be going to team red when I finally do upgrade, I had 2 R9 290x's for a while and they held their performance much better than their Nvidia equivalent. I just hope AMD makes a comeback this generation to put some pressure on Nvidia so they don't think they can do whatever they want.

 

Sorry that kinda turned into a bit of a rant haha

[tiberiusmoon5]

do a valley benchmark test then uninstall your gpu driver and install an driver before the 10 series gpu's were released and compare results.

 

[Praesi]

NVidia own 90% of the marked. They would be stupid to pull something like that off. I say no.

[Teddy07]

3 minutes ago, Praesi said:

NVidia own 90% of the marked. They would be stupid to pull something like that off. I say no.

Something like selling a video card with only 3,5 GB usable out of 4 GB VRAM? Pretty sure they are crippling older cards slightly or at least dont put much effort in drivers for them

[Praesi]

23 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

Something like selling a video card with only 3,5 GB usable out of 4 GB VRAM? Pretty sure they are crippling older cards slightly or at least dont put much effort in drivers for them

Dont forget your aluhut when you leave the house.

[xAcid9]

Video comparison or it never happen.

[Crafting]

3 hours ago, Praesi said:

NVidia own 90% of the marked. They would be stupid to pull something like that off. I say no.

I disagree, NVidia wants us to buy the latest GPU's.

This exact strategy is used by Apple, the older iphones get updates, that makes them worse, which makes people want to buy the latest instead, since it's faster, and therefore Apple makes alot of $ that way.

[MEC-777]

My 980 is still running as strong as ever. And I always run the latest drivers. (now 372.90) 

 

Might be psychological, knowing the latest '60 series card is as fast as the previous '80 series card. But that's just technological progress. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

41 minutes ago, Crafting said:

I disagree, NVidia wants us to buy the latest GPU's.

This exact strategy is used by Apple, the older iphones get updates, that makes them worse, which makes people want to buy the latest instead, since it's faster, and therefore Apple makes alot of $ that way.

So I guess Microsoft wants us to buy new hardware because they don't want to support Windows 7/8 on next generation processors.

 

I also guess Google wants us to be new hardware because Android O won't support older SoCs without hardware encryption functions.

 

Unless there's definitive proof that installing a later driver makes things worse, this is just a bunch of hoo ha.

 

[Praesi]

1 hour ago, Crafting said:

I disagree, NVidia wants us to buy the latest GPU's.

This exact strategy is used by Apple, the older iphones get updates, that makes them worse, which makes people want to buy the latest instead, since it's faster, and therefore Apple makes alot of $ that way.

The latest is father whatsoever. I like good Theories, but thats Nonsense.