So the 980ti i bought in November (6 months ago) will now receive less support for new games coming out, I find that incredible seeing as I spent £500 on one of their high end cards only for them to support it less in games half a year later?! That makes me think is it worth the money...Nvidia release new series every what 18-20months?? They expect to us to upgrade and spend that much each time to have fully optimised drivers for the games we want to play?? Grr
You can be sure that Pascal cards are getting the vast majority of attention, Maxwell cards are now still getting some optimizations when necessary, but Kepler and older are getting nothing except small bug fixes when necessary.
Look at it this way: GTX 980, when it was released, it was faster than 780 Ti for about 10%. That was back in September 2014. If you test them now, 20 months later, that gap has widened for both the older games that existed at the time, and it's now even wider for the newer games that are released now. It's something like 20-25% now. In some games like Doom it's even 40-50% faster. So it went from being just 10% faster at the time of the release to now which is even 50% faster in some titles.#
You can expect the same thing now. 1080 is faster than 980 Ti for about 20-25%. That is at the time of release. One year from now, especially for newer titles, that gap will be widened. Maybe it will be 35%, maybe 40%. In 20 months, it will be even wider. When Volta is released, the created gap between Maxwell and Pascal will remain the same as the majority of the optimizations will now happen for Volta. The same cycle repeats.
