Latest nVidia drivers slows down performance of previous gen cards?

[SinisterVirtue]

Is this a bug or intentional has someone investigated the cause yet? Has it already been patched?
 

 

[Speed Weed]

GTX 900 series affected? 

[SinisterVirtue]

Just now, DaPhuc said:

GTX 900 series affected? 

I hope not, I'm still running a 970. 

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5 minutes ago, Finwillwin said:

Honestly, there are many theories of this, but they are still selling 10** series cards so there would be no point in slowing them down.  This is as much of a crazy conspiracy theory as the globalist cloud people takeover.

 

 

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Haha, I don't think there's a conspiracy at hand, but I do know the overall, general consensus is that gamers would instead buy the previous gen top cards then go out and buy the latest cards especially with blindly investing in RTX right now ..  I mean it's possible as a means to show a significant increase to the performance  of the RTX cards, to slow down previous gen cards to widen the gap. 

Also, in addition to my above reply, I think if it were true, it's terribly skuzzy of nVidia to pull an apple trick. 

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2 minutes ago, SinisterVirtue said:

I hope not, I'm still running a 970. 

GTX 900 series affected too, I think from NVIDIA driver page for this driver.

https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/138567

Supported Products

 

NVIDIA TITAN Series

NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce RTX 20 Series

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080

GeForce 10 Series

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030

GeForce 900 Series

GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 700 Series

GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710

GeForce 600 Series

GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630

[SinisterVirtue]

416.34 is the latest driver, I don't have the means to test this though. 

[Enderman]

Probably just a bug.

This has happened plenty of times before.

Sometimes performance goes up, sometimes it goes down.

On average it goes up.

 

PS- sometimes it can be windows 10 that's not behaving properly with the new drivers.

[Ryujin2003]

UFDTech did a video on this, with commentary about how this was patched for the most part. I think he said impacts were still more on the lower end cards.

 

I'm not into conspiracy theories, but considering the amount of impact on day 1, I wonder if this was done to impact release benchmarks on day one, since i think it got fixed in day two?

 

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5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Probably just a bug.

This has happened plenty of times before.

Sometimes performance goes up, sometimes it goes down.

On average it goes up.

 

PS- sometimes it can be windows 10 that's not behaving properly with the new drivers.

Thanks this makes sense