lol, those vocal people were the thousands of posts on Nvidia's forums for 6 months wondering why all the new AAA titles performed like crap. The performance got SO bad in Witcher 3 with the performance difference being so embarrassingly large that even more Nvidia users piled into that thread on Nvidia forums demanding action.
Then lets get history straight, when people mentioned it here the usual group of Nvidia people who post then agree with each other constantly kept saying Kepler was slow in Witcher 3 because it was an old architecture, banged on about tessellation and how it was holding back Kepler performance. You acknowledged and excused the poor performance.
Then after a couple of weeks of both unstable and awful performance drivers Nvidia publicly admitted lacking Kepler performance, magically came up with a new driver that 'fixed' this performance in both Witcher 3 and several of the other games Nvidia users had been complaining about. So this excused poor performance apparently down to architecture that the usual suspects had been removed.... so was clearly not down to architecture. Since Nvidia was forced by their own users into finally addressing poor Kepler performance you are all now attempting to rewrite history by pretending the performance was never poor in the first place. Again only trouble there is the Nvidia users complaining about Kepler performance for months and Nvidia publicly admitting Kepler performance was sub par.
Even now D.P is trying to excuse lacking performance as an old architecture, because apparently with 'top support' and higher costs for the cards you can't expect good drivers for an older architecture 6 months after the release of a new architecture. Hardware Cannucks suck, as someone else posted a link to people basically laughing at the results entirely. The results from that website are both incredibly contradictory to most websites around AND excuses, as both of you have done, that Nvidia were forced into releasing drivers to fix the terrible performance.
So if performance is dire for 6 months, Nvidia finally release new drivers drastically improving performance... that 6 months didn't happen if you test drivers from launch and now? Sure.
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https://forums.geforce.com/default/...kepler-gpus-performance-in-favor-of-maxwell-/
just ONE of the threads with examples of MULTIPLE games released over a multiple month period that had slower 'new gen' cards all of a sudden beating faster Kepler based cards. Since the driver updates performance is magically back to where it should be and supposed architectural improvements that were excused as the reason for lacking Kepler performance are now no longer the difference with new drivers? Yes, on their own forums you see those same types of people making every excuse possible as to why Nvidia wasn't to blame in any way for poor performance.
There is proof of this literally every where, not least from Nvidia users, Nvidia themselves when they admitted they needed better Kepler drivers, the sudden large increase in Kepler performance when they finally addressed the problems. But right, now Nvidia have actually fixed the problem and can't be seen in the current drivers, it never happened. Funny how for something that never happened you all were throwing out every excuse possible for the lacking performance at the time... none of which stand up now the problem has been fixed.
