mapesdhs :
Come on tech journalists, dig into this stuff! What's going on here? Is the tech being deliberately held back? Is it legal? (baring in mind btw that such a change means the original stated performance claims must be misleading)
mapesdhs :
Nobody needs to dig into it, Nvidia were crippling the cards.
Yes because it makes perfect sense to purposely hold back a GPU when competition is nipping at one's heels. Well let's just get an international government consortium involved and fine Nvidia into bankruptcy because they released GPUs to the world that had governors on them until owners paid a driver ransom. That'll learn 'em!
Oh wait, what's that? Nobody is being forced to pay for driver improvements? Absurdity. Everyone sees the architecture breakdown of every new GPU release and what a GPU is capable of in a review. If you like what you see, you buy it. If you do not like what you see, you do not buy it. It's as simple as that.
I wonder why these accusations only apply to Nvidia GPUs and never AMD GPUs when driver or OS updates mysteriously show gains? I submit to you Fury X and a driver update showing gains over the 980Ti in certain apps when previously it was behind that GPU it targeted:
https://www.eteknix.com/windows-10-drivers-gives-amd-r9-fury-x-advantage-over-nvidia-980-ti/
The last time that I'm aware of a GPU maker ever "lying" about its GPU capabilities was Nvidia and the GTX 970. Nobody can prove if that was intentional or a massive breakdown in communication between the marketing department that puts the words out there or engineering that built the GPU. What we do know is that they paid a heavy fine for that mistake. Unless the outside of the box says things like "Guaranteed to hit 60FPS in Dues Ex at 4K" and it doesn't, what difference does it make what performance improvement driver updates mean to the GPU?