No Direct3D 12 Support for Fermi Based Geforce Graphic Cards Yet – Could Land in Q1 2016

LoadsaMoney · 30 Dec 2015 at 12:31

Nvidia originally promised DirectX 12 support for Fermi, Maxwell and Kepler based graphic cards. While Maxwell and Kepler were supported from the get go, Fermi support was delayed till the end of the year in an official statement by Nvidia. We have been asking Nvidia for updates throughout the way and their answer remained the same – that it was coming by the end of the year. Since 2015 is over and support has yet to arrive (unless they release it tomorrow), I thought it was time to do an official status update.

http://wccftech.com/fermi-dx12-support/

tommybhoy · 30 Dec 2015 at 12:34

Nvidia it's time to poach AMDMatt

DarrenM343 · 30 Dec 2015 at 12:48

How many DX12 games are currently out? No need to spend huge resources on getting support out there right now I don't think - but get it right for when it's needed. I doubt even the current gen cards will support it fully anyway - they're marketed as DX12 ready. Reminds me of HD ready TV's that are not quite HD

. Proper DX12 supported cards will be the next gen

humbug · 30 Dec 2015 at 15:07

To be fair Fermi went out of production 4 years ago, there are probably a few of them still kicking about but not for much longer.

Scougar · 30 Dec 2015 at 15:10

I really don't see this as an issue, even if I had a Fermi card still.

bru · 30 Dec 2015 at 15:42

From the original NVidia quote.

Fermi-based GPUs will gain support for DirectX 12 titles later this year, around the arrival of the first wave of DirectX 12 content.

and then from the wccftech article.

Nvidia mentioned that the support would be arriving sometime by the end of this year and by the time the first wave of DX12 content lands. 2015 is practically over and there still hasn’t been any word from green. To be fair to them however, DX12 content is still scarce – so it is entirely possible that they are waiting for some actual titles to land before rolling out support for Fermi GPUs.

Scarce, er non existent would be more like it.

So the basis for this article is that some old cards which were promised support for DX12 haven't got it yet but there isn't anything that actually uses DX12 yet anyway so it is understandable.

The whole article is just a slow news day piece, almost a complete waste of time.

drunkenmaster · 30 Dec 2015 at 16:18

They have support for Maxwell and Kepler for DX12, is there a reason to believe they know less about Fermi and thus are finding it hard to rush support for DX12 for any particular reason?

More people own Fermi cards than Maxwell for sure, probably Kepler also, meaning support(if it was really coming) would be a fairly high priority. They promised it for launch, now they promised it for later in the year, missed that also and are promising it for later again. Is something going to change with Fermi in the mean time or are they just pushing it back till no one cares and they can pretend they never meant to support it at all.

That it probably won't get support doesn't matter, that it supports almost no real DX12 features even if it gets a DX12 driver is even less important, that they promised it and they and Nvidia fan boys ran around for a year talking about how many more Nvidia cards would support DX12 than AMD, that Nvidia had better support because they were going to support an entire generation older than AMD, that is what matters.

It was BS then and now, but they get the 12-18 months of publicity of everyone saying they'd have more DX12 support.

Orangey · 30 Dec 2015 at 17:06

Lot of irate owners saying "DX12, not fer me" through exasperated sighs right now.

siriq111 · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:42

ManuelG from Nvidia stated, the DX 12 is coming . End of story. I got Fermi. I want DX 12 support asap but i just can't use it at all. I did some DX 12 3dmark api overhead test with the alpha driver and that's it.
Looks like the whole DX 12 era is postponed.

WDDM 2.0 already giving me some extra fps everywhere.

AlamoX · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:49

if they manage to delay it for another year, ppl might finish migrating to newer GPUs

siriq111 · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:53

Tell me where can i use DX 12 atm? As i mentioned i would love to use DX 12 but not even games are out yet.

Orangey · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:58

AlamoX said:
if they manage to delay it for another year, ppl might finish migrating to newer GPUs

Pascal is supposed to clear up the remaining Fermi holdouts soooo.....

siriq111 · 31 Dec 2015 at 23:59

Orangey said:
Pascal is supposed to clear up the remaining Fermi holdouts soooo.....

This Fermi is a keeper for me. Even if i got Pascal. At least i do some bench later on DX 12. One of the best card i ever had since Realtek ISA.

AlamoX · 1 Jan 2016 at 00:06

siriq111 said:
Tell me where can i use DX 12 atm? As i mentioned i would love to use DX 12 but not even games are out yet.

i dont know of any DX12 game out yet, but there is benchmark i think, ashes of singularity, you can grab that on steam i believe.

Panos · 1 Jan 2016 at 00:07

Fermi, who owns those relics nowadays? And if they support Fermi, I demand support for G80 also. I have two (8800GTX & Ultra) upstairs, might use them one day

And they can still play Crysis..................

.:SAmSuNG:. · 1 Jan 2016 at 00:11

A 580 is not really a relic.

siriq111 · 1 Jan 2016 at 00:13

Panos said:
Fermi, who owns those relics nowadays? And if they support Fermi, I demand support for G80 also. I have two (8800GTX & Ultra) upstairs, might use them one day

And they can still play Crysis..................

This GTX 570 easy runs Star wars battlefront @high settings in 1080p. Fallout 4 ultra no problem at all for this baby.

siriq111 · 1 Jan 2016 at 00:23

AlamoX said:
i dont know of any DX12 game out yet, but there is benchmark i think, ashes of singularity, you can grab that on steam i believe.

I already have it. I played with Ashes as well for 30 min then deleted. For DX 12 bench is kinda uhhh. I wanna see some DX 12 games not benches.

AlamoX · 1 Jan 2016 at 01:24

siriq111 said:
I already have it. I played with Ashes as well for 30 min then deleted. For DX 12 bench is kinda uhhh. I wanna see some DX 12 games not benches.

up coming titles i know off, fable, deux ex, ashes, i also heard rumors at some point that some released games might patch for DX12 compatibility, like the witcher 3 and Arma3, but haven't heard anything since for almost a year now.
i wonder if the new tomb raider will be DX12, since that is the API used for xbox.

siriq111 · 1 Jan 2016 at 01:29

AlamoX said:
up coming titles i know off, fable, deux ex, ashes, i also heard rumors at some point that some released games might patch for DX12 compatibility, like the witcher 3 and Arma3, but haven't heard anything since for almost a year now.
i wonder if the new tomb raider will be DX12, since that is the API used for xbox.

I know all the upcoming titles. I still want DX 12 asap but also some games. Unfortunately DX 12 kinda postponed. So we all have to wait longer than we expected.