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Nvidia fermi runs out of support for vulkan

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After the announcement of the DirectX 12 and Vulkan Nvidia APIs, I affirm that both would be compatible with their GeForce GTX 400 or higher graphics cards, that is, those based on the Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell architectures. It seems that Nvidia has a memory problem and is not going to keep its promise.

Nvidia forgets about Fermi

The Fermi- based graphics cards are the GeForce 400 and GeForce 500, DirectX 12 has arrived and both are still not compatible with the new Microsoft API that promises to greatly improve the performance of PC video games. Vulkan is the rival API of DirectX 12 and it was supposed to reach Fermi-based cards as well, something that ultimately won't happen either and its users are going to get stuck in DirectX 11 and Open GL.

With this decision, Nvidia seeks to focus its efforts on cards with Kepler and Maxwell architecture, much more advanced than Fermi and with much higher energy efficiency. Something certainly understandable since Fermi arrived in 2010 and currently even a GTX 950 is superior in performance to the GTX 580, the greatest exponent of Fermi. What do you think of Nvidia's decision? Do you think you should keep your promise?

Source: wccftech

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