NVIDIA Thinks These GPUs Are Worthless

Recently NVIDIA announced that they would be discontinuing Game Ready driver support for their Kepler architecture-based GPUs like the 600 and 700 series. Does this mean these GPUs can no longer game? Today we find out.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:21 Introducing the GTX 760
3:12 760 - CSGO
4:02 760 - Rocket League
4:42 760 - F1 2020
5:02 760 - Apex Legends
6:21 760 - Doom Eternal & VRAM Discussion
8:00 Introducing the GTX 780 Ti
8:50 780 Ti - F1 2020
9:36 780 Ti - Doom Eternal
10:25 780 Ti - Dirt 5 & DirectX 12 Discussion
11:25 780 Ti - Civilization VI
12:05 780 Ti - Control
12:23 Why Discontinuing These Cards Might Make Sense
15:45 What If You Already Have a Kepler-Based GPU?
16:28 Outro

[MattMurphree]

I love how the YouTube auto captions think your name is lioness.

[MyNameIsBucket]

Linus: drops a $5000 CPU
Also Linus: carefully places down garbage

[dumpsterdawg]

"Take that rocks...whoops got no ammo"
Only Linus could lose to a rock in a shooter

[TheWesman]

Ah, 2013, when you needed quad SLI just to play at reasonable frame rates at 4k. What a glorious age we live in. Single card, ultra settings, at 4k, and high frame rates. You know, except nowadays we can't play at any frame rate because GPUs have become a myth.

[TechGamesAU]

I sold my 780ti for $470 AUD back in 2015. The buyer sent me this message through eBay after they received it “I think the card is great! It is my first ever card that has full metal housing and back plate and it is so premium feeling (I think the accent stickers are metal, too!). And it ran all my games smoothly at 1080p on my dell monitor. Looks great and feels great in my FT02 case, I couldn't be happier.”

[nodestar]

Kelper isn't supported anymore?

There goes every single retailer's stock of gt 710s and 730s

[joolian]

"this was once a $700 gpu"
the market: *$600, take it or leave it*

[skjoldgames]

July 21st, 2021 “If a 10 series is out of your budget, then one of these cards is not a terrible idea”
What a crazy outcome we’ve landed in. Good God.

[MigotRen]

"everything at low and 1600x900, this looks like a game from 10 years ago"

Well like Battlefield 3?
yes. its been 10 years and it still looks decent

[cameronkoplin]

Modern coolers might have all the bells and whistles, but those 7th gen Windforce coolers will always have a place with me.

[LonelySandwich]

AMD did the exact same with their own old cards...Pre-Polaris lost support.

[Kraafft]

watching doom eternal chug on 25 fps makes me sad that Linus never contacts LowSpecGamer for these types of videos, that guy would have Doom running with at LEAST 40 fps

[tinnov]

Scissors: Linus's power button of choice.

[SaturnTubes]

“It’s worthless, it’s garbage-just like our sponsor!”

[profblack]

This is so true. I recently sold my first ever graphics card which was a GTX 770. I hadn’t used it in years and thought it was basically worthless for gaming these days. But, my friend at work managed to get his hands on a PC that was just missing a GPU and he wanted to build his son a gaming rig for strategy games. With my 770 apparently the kid is able to get max settings at 1080p in all of the games that he plays.

[rodhester]

retro gaming is awesome and everyone realizes this when they get older and start missing their old games and hardware from back in the day. Just wait til you hit 50 years old or so.. I love the new but I love the old too..

[Ivan-prku]

The case for Doom Eternal is that its game engine relies on tight integration of compute and graphics tasks to accelerate the rendering.
Kepler GPUs can't execute compute and graphics kernels at the same time and this deficiency leads to frequent GPU under-utilization, resulting in sharp FPS drops. The small video memory size is not a factor here.
Even if Nvidia had the will, no driver-level optimization could do much (if any) to improve the performance in that game for Kepler.

[kraken]

I got into LTT when this GPU came out, time does fly.

[bvtn]

The 290x is a better Option, full Dx12 Support+ 4GB Vram and sometimes double the fps of the 780Ti

[TIOLIOfficial]

So did AMD by dropping support for their whole R9 lineup (as well as other very capable GPUs)...