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Anyone with a GTX 7 series Nvidia card please chime in.

Perhaps its a case that the older 7 series lack features ound in the newer Maxwell range, from a brief look about the performance is down in mainly newer game titles. Titles that take advantage of the new architecture.? I'm not currently playing any of these nee games like gta or the witcher, but in older titles performance is still pretty much spot on with sli 780's.
 
setter said:
Perhaps its a case that the older 7 series lack features ound in the newer Maxwell range, from a brief look about the performance is down in mainly newer game titles. Titles that take advantage of the new architecture.? I'm not currently playing any of these nee games like gta or the witcher, but in older titles performance is still pretty much spot on with sli 780's.
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Problem is, what is it, better tessellation performance? So why has a 280x moved ahead of a 780 in Witcher 3.... when the 280x has worse tessellation performance. They are both dx11 cards, 780 used to be categorically faster than a 280x. A 780/780ti was in the 290x ballpark performance, ahead really at launch of the 290x, now it's moved down an entire performance segment to the 280x? We're talking about a 550mm^2 card(although some disabled) easily beating a 360mm^2 core at the time and now performance is similar.

Reading through that it's multiple games, while ultra tessellation levels on new architectures might make a difference with certain settings that kind of change should effect all older cards that lack that kind of specific performance and there is no reason for Kepler performance at every level in every card to have regressed so entirely.

There is effectively two options, Nvidia is forcing a performance gap on purpose OR games need more optimisation on behalf of a card in each and every driver release to get good performance out of a game and Nvidia is no longer doing this for last gen cards.


If this was a Witcher 3 only bug, why are Nvidia users on their own forum listing multiple games that over multiple months have had the same problem, if a genuine bug killing performance was happening it would have been fixed in the older games it's happened in by now.
 
Guess it is a case of not wishing to spend too much effort and resource on optimising performance of older EOL cards (where there's no more money to be made), when they could focus more on optimising the new gen cards, widening the performance gap between old and new gen to encourage more people to upgrade.
 
setter said:
Perhaps its a case that the older 7 series lack features ound in the newer Maxwell range.
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The figures don't bear this out. It doesn't look good right now and I think people who are spending hundreds of their hard-earned deserve at least the respect of an official response from Nvidia.

I currently own a 970 and not very impressed with this - it could definitely influence my next GPU purchase decision even though I have been on the green team since day one.
 
well i cant comment on most of the games people are complaining about, but gta 5 which some are complaining about, on my 780ti ghz sli setup @ 4k is fantastic, no complaints here. im not that interested in the witcher 3, but im sure a driver update will fix this if there is a big problem.
 
I think since the 970 fiasco people are just looking for conspiracies against nVidia now at every opportunity, and maybe rightly so.

This can quite easily be proven though with people likely already working on it and I doubt nVidia want to be caught trying to fool their customers again.
 
Can't speak of witcher as I've not tried it, but no issues on the others being mentioned.

GTA is amazing with just a couple of settings changed(killer grass!)
 
I have a GTX780 and GTA V plays great for me i havent had any issues at all almost everything maxed (cant remeber what i have turned down now but it wasnt much) and im getting near 60fps at 1080 and plays really smooth

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I havent played it for a couple of weeks as i havent had chance but im guessing in that time there has been a driver update thats crippled performance???? i havent got W3 so cant test that
 
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On my 780 I run W3 in mostly ultra appart from water and shadows which I put on high. I turn the hairworks off too because that is a huge FPS killer. I get about 40-50 fps in 1080, but 1440 is awful. For some reason the game does not seem to like G-Sync I found, it makes it MORE choppy. So try turning it off if you have it on.

The oddly low 780/780ti series performance is not tesselation related though, there isn't that much of it in W3. Something else is causing it. The latest drivers don't help either.
 
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This is just terrible service from Nvidia, Witcher 3 is completely unplayable on my 7900GTO!
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I bet that chap who posted video's that I can't find disagree's and as he would say "NVidia make buy new cards...No need it play perfect well on my GTS 8500"

:D
 
Add me.

Titan Black SLI 4k and I can't even get 30 FPS at medium settings.

Mind you I don't blame Nvidia I blame the idiots who coded it.
 
It's just a dog. I turned all of the blur settings and alias off and am now in the mid to high 40s at medium and mid 30s with high settings.

Not good enough and I certainly don't want to play it.

I remember the Witcher 2 slaughtered my GTX 470 and tbh this is no better. They should have delayed it like Rockstar did and presented us with a good looking game that runs properly.

Thankfully I only paid £20 for it. I would be furious had I spent full price.
 
I don’t think we get the complexity of modern game design.

They have clearly coded it with the Maxell cards in mind. But maybe this was done for technical reasons. I.e tessellation in game is high, and the 900 series can render it three times faster, so it’s logical it perform better on the 900 series.

In time Nvidia CDProject may work some magic and improve performance on the other cards.

But to have done this from the start would have clearly been a massive technical undertaking.
 
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It's just a dog. I turned all of the blur settings and alias off and am now in the mid to high 40s at medium and mid 30s with high settings.

Not good enough and I certainly don't want to play it.

I remember the Witcher 2 slaughtered my GTX 470 and tbh this is no better. They should have delayed it like Rockstar did and presented us with a good looking game that runs properly.

Thankfully I only paid £20 for it. I would be furious had I spent full price.
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If you are getting high 40's at 4k medium with AA off, that's not particularly bad if you ask me.

You have Hairworks off as well? That's the killer.
 
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