Best driver for Kepler (780 Ti)

NdMk2o1o · Mar 10, 2018

For those of us with older Kepler based GPU's do you have a recommended driver version or do you just install the latest from the Nvidia website?

Toothless · Mar 10, 2018

Still going with the latest on my 780.

rtwjunkie · Mar 10, 2018

NdMk2o1o said:
For those of us with older Kepler based GPU's do you have a recommended driver version or do you just install the latest from the Nvidia website?

Also 347.88. Only once since then has anything been added in drivers for Kepler. 347.88 was the last of the optimization’s for it.

I’m glad Toothless is doing good with the latest. I would be very interested to know what performance is like compared to 347.88.

Try his suggestion first, and consider 347.88 as a fallback.

NdMk2o1o · Mar 10, 2018

rtwjunkie said:
Also 347.88. Only once since then has anything been added in drivers for Kepler. 347.88 was the last of the optimization’s for it.

I’m glad Toothless is doing good with the latest. I would be very interested to know what performance is like compared to 347.88.

Try his suggestion first, and consider 347.88 as a fallback.

I'm downloading it now, I know kepler hasn't been updated in drivers for quite some time, but surely it should be better using a driver version that was written specifically with kepler in mind as opposed to just using the latest which have had various performance improvements for maxwell, who's to say it hasn't affected kepler performance? I'll be doing some 3dMark benching tonight to see if there is any discernible difference between the latest (which I was using up until today ) and the version you mentioned and post my findings if there is any difference.

rtwjunkie · Mar 10, 2018

Your results will be interesting. What would be even more interesting are how that does with new games. *I’ve always stayed numerous versions behind and do not worry about all these “game ready” releases. I do fine.

DR4G00N · Mar 10, 2018

Just use the latest, the performance differences between driver versions are negligible honestly.

DRDNA · Mar 10, 2018

388.71 here for the GTX 960M which I'm pretty certain is Kepler....

I was using 368.39 but found some newer games weren't happy with them.

EDIT my bad the 960m is a Maxwell

NdMk2o1o · Mar 11, 2018

Sooooo can't even run Time Spy with this 347.88 driver, just before it starts I get the "oops an error occured" and it doesnt start so I get a big fat score of 0, Fire Strike seems to run (it starts, I havent let it run all the way)

DRDNA · Mar 11, 2018

NdMk2o1o said:
Sooooo can't even run Time Spy with this 347.88 driver, just before it starts I get the "oops an error occured" and it doesnt start so I get a big fat score of 0, Fire Strike seems to run (it starts, I havent let it run all the way)

app developers are getting lazy...

agent_x007 · Mar 11, 2018

NdMk2o1o said:
Sooooo can't even run Time Spy with this 347.88 driver, just before it starts I get the "oops an error occured" and it doesnt start so I get a big fat score of 0, Fire Strike seems to run (it starts, I havent let it run all the way)

Well, duh ?
347.88 is too old to support DirectX 12, which Time Spy requires.
DirectX 12 support was added in July 2015 with GeForce 353.62 driver.

NdMk2o1o · Mar 11, 2018

Well not really duh like it's a well known fact :laugh:

but cheers, I'll go check out 353.62 or later and see how I get on, thanks for not being sarcastic about it :slap:

agent_x007 said:
Well, duh ?
347.88 is too old to support DirectX 12, which Time Spy requires.
DirectX 12 support was added in July 2015 with GeForce 353.62 driver.

DRDNA · Mar 11, 2018

agent_x007 said:
Well, duh ?
347.88 is too old to support DirectX 12, which Time Spy requires.
DirectX 12 support was added in July 2015 with GeForce 353.62 driver.

that's weird because https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti-Desktop.121054.0.html

says DirectX DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0

dont ask why i was notebook...lol

agent_x007 · Mar 11, 2018

Why weird ?
DX12 support was added around the same time as Windows 10 launched, so... I say it was right on time

qubit · Mar 11, 2018

I don't use my 780 Ti any more, but if I did, I'd just install the latest driver.

Regardless of that outdated driver you used which is likely to cause problems anyway, is the 780 Ti even supposed to work with DX12 anyway? I thought the first DX12 architecture was Maxwell.

rtwjunkie · Mar 11, 2018

qubit said:
I don't use my 780 Ti any more, but if I did, I'd just install the latest driver.

Regardless of that outdated driver you used which is likely to cause problems anyway, is the 780 Ti even supposed to work with DX12 anyway? I thought the first DX12 architecture was Maxwell.

It was added in through drivers for Kepler. Granted it’s not full DX12 tho.

qubit · Mar 11, 2018

rtwjunkie said:
It was added in through drivers for Kepler. Granted it’s not full DX12 tho.

Ok, so it should work with partial support without crashing then? Full DX12 support was half of the reason that I replaced it with the GTX 1080. The other half of course, was the sheer speed and they greatly improved amount of VRAM.

agent_x007 · Mar 11, 2018

qubit said:
is the 780 Ti even supposed to work with DX12 anyway?

Yes, it does work with DirectX 12 games and programs.
It's pretty slow while doing it tho...

Time Spy : LINK
TIme Spy Extreme : LINK
API Overhead : LINK

Fermi cards got the same "DirectX 12 support" treatment as Kepler just last year :
Time Spy : LINK
API Overhead : LINK

qubit · Mar 11, 2018

agent_x007 said:
Yes, it does work with DirectX 12 games and programs.
It's pretty slow while doing it tho...

Time Spy : LINK
TIme Spy Extreme : LINK
API Overhead : LINK

Faster Fermi cards got the same "DirectX 12 support" treatment as Kepler just last year :
Time Spy : LINK
API Overhead : LINK

Oh yeah, I remember Fermi getting the DX12 treatment long after those cards became irrelevant. :laugh:

Honestly, I dunno why NVIDIA bothered. I still have my reference GTX 580 and could try it if I was bothered to. Thanks for the linkies.

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Best driver for Kepler (780 Ti)

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