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I've been getting a lot of requests in for people asking me to test a GTX 780 and test to see if older drivers actually give performance benefits which would mean Nvidia are doing a gimp job with their latest drivers though today we're going to be testing not only that we're going to be thrown in another rumor that I've been hearing and that is that a 7970 will actually perform similar to a GTX 780 nowadays ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech yes Cindy this is brian coming to you guys today with a video on the gtx 780 and I'm testing out two different driver sets here the newest drivers being three six 4.7 - I believe and then the older drivers which I downloaded from an independent site were the three forty point five two drivers from actually a couple of years ago so what I'm aiming at with this video is I'm seeing to test whether the older drivers will actually give a performance boost not only some of those older titles that I've tested in the past but also some of the newer titles to this day now moving on straight into the benchmarks I really couldn't find any smoking guns here to say that Nvidia have been nerfing the performance of the GTX 780 with driver updates the one thing that will become quickly apparent from seeing these benchmarks is that the GTX 970 especially when I first reviewed it like a year and a half ago has received a lot of performance gains through driver updates now one game that I will pay particular attention to is Dark Souls 3 which is a recently released title and we see here that the old-school drivers for the GTX 780 really made no difference with the new-school drivers and what this means essentially is that Nvidia just aren't really focusing on updating the drivers for the old-school Kepler architecture anymore which is quite a shame when you think about it considering how much people paid for those graphics cards only just a couple of years ago to realize that it's no longer receiving any driver updates for them to make games perform that off Maxwell on the other hand that's been receiving a lot of love over the last couple of years since its invidious latest and greatest architecture lastly I will touch on the 7970 as well that was a good 20 percent below the GTX 780 however in Just Cause 3 it was actually coming pretty close to scoring in the same league which actually was quite impressive it does mean that AMD is giving the 7970 still some pretty good driver updates so that we have at the GTX 780 although it hasn't been getting gimped it also hasn't been getting any love at all so which kind of disappoints me considering how much people were paying for these graphics cards only a couple of years ago I mean I managed to get mine for 130 bucks but that's besides the point though that's generally how the industry works I came into this being a realist knowing that vidi is a publicly listed company and they needed to make profit so it's no surprise and you know at the end of the day if you paid good money for a GTX 780 unfortunately you're just another victim of corporatism so anyway guys that's about it for me today if you have any questions or comments about the GTX 780 - be sure to let me know in the comments section below now there was that fiasco with witcher 3 and having severely gived performance on the kepler architecture and nvidia did fix that i believe with a driver update although it took them a little bit of time so hopefully if we all stay in the community and we all stay widen and we communicate to one another then we'll hopefully stop and video from pulling shady shenanigans like that again so in the meantime the GTX 780 still is a pretty good performing card it's just not as good as a GTX 970 which is kind of a shame since it should be in my opinion anyway that's all from me guys if you like this video then be sure to hit that like button if you have any questions or comments about this video then be sure to drop a comment the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and also the 7970 still is a grade below the 780 in my opinion and this was actually a pretty damn aggressively overclocked card I got this - 1.2 gigahertz anyway I'll catch you in the next video peace out for now bye now getting on straight into the benchmarks we could quite simply see that there was no smoking gun here except the one in my pants