Status updates for three graphics drivers

Posted Oct 15, 2015 9:33 UTC (Thu) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: Status updates for three graphics drivers by jhoblitt
Parent article: Status updates for three graphics drivers

Chinese sellers using hacked firmware to pull the same trick they do with counterfeit flash sticks that don't have as much flash on them as they tell the OS.

Make the thing lie about being a better card than it really is, cheat the buyer, and let nVidia take the blame for the poor performance.

Status updates for three graphics drivers

Posted Oct 15, 2015 11:25 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Oh - so they've taken a leaf out of the American Marketing Handbook, have they :-)

NCR circa 1900 for example, and I gather it's feared a recent Supreme Court Of The US ruling on free speech may be on the verge of bringing those days back ,,,

Cheers,
Wol

Status updates for three graphics drivers

Posted Oct 15, 2015 12:03 UTC (Thu) by ssokolow (guest, #94568) [Link]

Hey, given that the firmware is supposed to be uploaded by the driver, not stored in flash on the card, and thus an easy deception to beat by downloading the driver from the nVidia site, I'm rather skeptical myself.

I'm just sharing their excuse.

Status updates for three graphics drivers

Posted Oct 18, 2015 16:38 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Alternatively, nVidia are going the Intel route of locking "high end" features like overclocking support within the encrypted firmware.

It's much more profitable to have one production line and product-bin it purely in software to meet quotas than to actually QA the hardware and sell it for what it physically can do. Those profits don't last very long when firmware modders can outsmart the firmware authors - which was a regular occurrence until now.