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Originally Posted by jprovido 
good point. when the gtx 470 released it was way below HD5870 performance and was only geared to compete with the HD5850. alas after a number of moons later with driver updates it surpassed the HD5870. it's not like AMD stopped updating their drivers. it's just that nvidia did a much better job
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Originally Posted by SlackerITGuy
Not that I think NVIDIA will be able to provide with such a significant boost with their drivers like AMD did, but for Fermi (I had a GTX 470), drivers kept on improving for almost a year constantly, I wish I could find the tomshardware article that showed this (performance per driver branch for 400 series), so I don't think that Kepler, being a new architecture, has reached its ceiling here after what? ~5 months?
Not that I think NVIDIA will be able to provide with such a significant boost with their drivers like AMD did, but for Fermi (I had a GTX 470), drivers kept on improving for almost a year constantly, I wish I could find the tomshardware article that showed this (performance per driver branch for 400 series), so I don't think that Kepler, being a new architecture, has reached its ceiling here after what? ~5 months?
good point. when the gtx 470 released it was way below HD5870 performance and was only geared to compete with the HD5850. alas after a number of moons later with driver updates it surpassed the HD5870. it's not like AMD stopped updating their drivers. it's just that nvidia did a much better job
Agreed!
I had 6 different 5870's, but still I just prefered Nvidia's drivers with the 470/480's so much more, especially when it comes to new games out. I often found that AMD was lacking often months after a new game came out. (This has also happened with the 6xxx vs GTX 5xx and 7xxx vs GTX 6xx)
So even though I love AMD's cards and have owned 30+ cards from them, Nvidia is just miles better when it comes to drivers and therefor I am only buying them now until AMD can catch up properly.
The day AMD gets as good with drivers as Nvidia, it will be really hard for me to pick new cards lol, they have catched up a little, but still got a good bit to go.
On topic: How are the new drivers for people? Any increases in your favorite game?
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