NVIDIA Waves Goodbye to Their Fermi Graphics Cards

[RadeonProVega]

I had my PNY GTX 550 ti for the longest, about 4 years. It served me well, but after buying the W5000 firepro it blows that card out the water. I still have it for back up though , but it was a good card.
On another note, you don't nessarcy need new drivers to play games well or the latest games well using fermi cards. For users who have 550 ti , i always recommended people use the 337 series, they are much more stable and faster.

 

[TheGuruStud]

i tried to point out the Hype that was made about Fermi even before it was released. I insist Fermi was extremely overrated and it sold out just with help of the dumb fans

the real good deal was 6xx series. especially the 680. i am still using it and never regret buying it.

And for the "long" support yout claim you got. nvidia changed the single price of top single gpu gfx card from 400$ to 1000$. (now it is 2000$ or 3000$ maybe?) so when they get overpaid that much i think that they should support cards not only for 8 years but for life time.

No, it was 7950. 680 was left in the dust. Oced to ~1,200 core and elpida memory chips clocked high.
660ti was a very good value with OC, though.

 

[Xaled]

No, it was 7950. 680 was left in the dust. Oced to ~1,200 core and elpida memory chips clocked high.

i was talking avout the nVidia side. yeah the AMD 7xxx cards were good but were little overpriced and AMD didnt take full advantage of their leadership back then and missed a great chance of taking back market share, due to Lisa Su's unwise pricing strategies

 

[TheGuruStud]

i was talking avout the nVidia side. yeah the AMD 7xxx cards were good but were little overpriced and AMD didnt take full advantage of their leadership back then and missed a great chance of taking back market share, due to Lisa Su's unwise pricing strategies

They were priced relative to performance. Oh, I know, only nvidia can charge that or higher and get away with it. Which is why the 6950 owned nvidia, though, it was priced great. Which brings me to Fermi. I had a 6950 flashed to 6970 = awesome sauce. Nvidia wanted 200 dollars more LOLOLOL. Then, I bought another later for xfire totaling ONLY $510. Anyone that bought nvidia scammed themselves.

I was done after the 8800 series. Nvidia realized their customer base were retards like intel's and took full advantage.

The best cards I ever owned were the geforce 3 ultra, 6800GT, 8800GTs, 4890s, 6950s and 7950s. Unfortunately, dual gpus were waning heavily by the 7950s and became obsolete soon after. The next card was a single 290x.

It's going to be THREE YEARS on this 980ti and there's still no reason to upgrade. I only bought it, b/c of the OCing. Obviously, neither company has released a card worth upgrading to, so I will continue to wait till 2019 and it absolutely won't be nvidia after all the shit they've done, plus GPP.

 

[Xaled]

They were priced relative to performance. Oh, I know, only nvidia can charge that or higher and get away with it.

The one who is ahead can change. AMD was behind back then and needed to to get ahead in long term by getting back market share and sell numbers not by short-term profit. exactly as it did with the 5xxx and 6xxx series

 

[Assimilator]

I was done after the 8800 series. Nvidia realized their customer base were retards like intel's and took full advantage.

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It's going to be THREE YEARS on this 980ti and there's still no reason to upgrade.

Cool story.

 

[Vayra86]

i tried to point out the Hype that was made about Fermi even before it was released. I insist Fermi was extremely overrated and it sold out just with help of the dumb fans

the real good deal was 6xx series. especially the 680. i am still using it and never regret buying it.

And for the "long" support yout claim you got. nvidia changed the single price of top single gpu gfx card from 400$ to 1000$. (now it is 2000$ or 3000$ maybe?) so when they get overpaid that much i think that they should support cards not only for 8 years but for life time.

This is some strange perception at work here. The 680 was by far the least interesting card in the Kepler line up because there was a 670 below it that performed within 10% of it for a much lower price. And there was AMD that basically had a better perf/dollar on each price point from the 7870 ~ 7970 and kept updating the 7970 to keep it as performance king. The 660ti was crap too because it ran a 192 bit bus with too many shaders, running into bandwidth constraints. It was stellar in one game and crap in the next, no consistency whatsoever.


Moving on now... try not to spill too much salt while I'm gone. After all we're talking about Fermi support

 

[bogami]

Fremi served me good with GTX590 TGT best ,for a long time. It's the latest generation GPU with decent prices.

 

[dorsetknob]

I hope that NVidia don't go all AMD and start seeing older games stop working case there latest drivers no longer support them

Games just don't stop working if the Card you use no longer receives Driver Support then it Becomes a "Legacy Card" and your stuck with the last working updated Driver.
Same with O/S when they no longer receive updates they become legacy
they are Still Functional and work.

 

[Parn]

Still have a GTX560 rocking in my ancient C2Q/P45 system. Since that box runs Linux, I guess Game Ready or not it doesn't make any difference.

 

[bug]

The thing is, when Nvidia does this, for Linux they still update their driver for a number of years, adding support for newer kernels and X servers.
Just for kicks, I went to their page and looked for drivers for GeForce 7 series (that's right, 13 years ago). Lo and behold, the driver was last updated on Sept 2017. The 64bit driver.
Sure, they kinda have to do this with their driver being closed sourced, but when AMD's driver was closed sourced, they used to drop support like there was no tomorrow.

 

[The_DriverX]

I have an Asus 520 GT that's in my OpenElec Media PC... Silent, works great! Even without support, this card should last me years to come.

 

[Keullo-e]

Had a GTX 470, 560 Ti 448 and 570. I owned the 470 for about two years, which is pretty much for me.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You really can't ask for more in the GPU industry at this point

Rubbish! I still have 8800's, 9800's and a pair of 275's that run just fine. He was likely OCing and OVing them..

 

[Melvis]

I waved good bye to Fermi as soon as it came out.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Games just don't stop working if the Card you use no longer receives Driver Support then it Becomes a "Legacy Card" and your stuck with the last working updated Driver.
Same with O/S when they no longer receive updates they become legacy
they are Still Functional and work.

Well said!

 

[yogurt_21]

still have 3 GTX 480's (only 2 of them work) They were beasts, loud, hot, and oh so awesome in the performance category in SLI. My R9 290 died and I can't (read refuse to pay those prices) afford to replace it, so I'm on a GTX 760...if that dies I guess my 480's might just have another day in the sun lol.

 

[Midland Dog]

I'd have to say all of these GPU's had a good run, I have a GTX570 that I had to bake at one point, still running like a champ to this day. Ready to cook dinner, heat the house and play Crysis.

you shouldnt have to bake a fermi card they do it themselves

 

[rtwjunkie]

you shouldnt have to bake a fermi card they do it themselves

This is only true of the 1st gen high end Fermi cards.

 

[bug]

you shouldnt have to bake a fermi card they do it themselves

From TPU's own reviews:
OC GTX 480: 223W avg, 257W peak power draw.
Vanilla Vega 64: 292W avg, 303W (balanced profile, it can go higher than that).

See:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_480_SOC/25.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_Vega_64/29.html

 

[Xaled]

From TPU's own reviews:
OC GTX 480: 223W avg, 257W peak power draw.
Vanilla Vega 64: 292W avg, 303W (balanced profile, it can go higher than that).

See:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_480_SOC/25.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_Vega_64/29.html

While most of of gpus that draw low power have low temps the opposite isnt always true. High power draw doesnt necessarly mean high temps. some cards can just handle the power, for insantce: Vega. Gtx 480 was working too hot to the point that lettpu skip the tempreature chart (i couldnt find it in the link you provided)

 

[bug]

While most of of gpus that draw low power have low temps the opposite isnt always true. High power draw doesnt necessarly mean high temps. some cards can just handle the power, for insantce: Vega. Gtx 480 was working too hot to the point that lettpu skip the tempreature chart (i couldnt find it in the link you provided)

From the same reviews:
OC GTX 480: 83C
Vanilla Vega 64: 78/85C (balanced profile, depending on BIOS)

 

[Midland Dog]

From TPU's own reviews:
OC GTX 480: 223W avg, 257W peak power draw.
Vanilla Vega 64: 292W avg, 303W (balanced profile, it can go higher than that).

See:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_480_SOC/25.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_Vega_64/29.html

im an nvidia fan boy but im to blind by fanboism to see when one of the green teams cards is a flop, mind you speaking of vega, he he he. Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra, by the time its light hits Earth AMD will still not have made a "magical driver" that can fix it. Its ironic that they named it after one of the hottest naturally occurring phenomenon we know off

 

[bug]

im an nvidia fan boy but im to blind by fanboism to see when one of the green teams cards is a flop, mind you speaking of vega, he he he. Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra, by the time its light hits Earth AMD will still not have made a "magical driver" that can fix it. Its ironic that they named it after one of the hottest naturally occurring phenomenon we know off

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say GTX 480 was cool or anything. I was just hinting (stupid thing to do on a forum, in hindsight) that it's AMD that historically had more designs that could be characterized as pushed a bit too close to their limits. Nvidia had Fermi and people keep fixating on that (while also forgetting Nvidia's FX 5900 & comp.)

Also, +1 for your astronomy reference and I'll throw in that our own Sun moves towards Vega. Not that it will ever get there, but that the direction in which it drifts.