Driver optimization for Titan/780?

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So cards get faster with time as drivers improve. But, are the Titan and 780 likely to get faster with time in the same way that the 600 series did? Because they are still Kepler despite GK110, so wouldn't they already be upto the point the 670's and 680's are, and wont see much improvement?

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Here's a great retrospective of driver releases over the course of 2012. This will give you an idea of how much of a boost to expect over the remainder of 2013 and beyond.

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"2012 was a good year for NVIDIA in terms of new video card releases, and driver support. The GeForce GTX 600 series started off strong, and ended strong for the year. It seemed more often than not NVIDIA got its driver optimizations for games right the first time. This is something that buyers should take into consideration for any graphics card series. It is important to look back at the history, and support for new games as they are released. Most of you reading this are like us, we pre-order games, and start playing our brand new shiny game immediately...
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Yes, actually they will probably receive a similar level of improvements as the 600 series did because the drivers are not based on a gpu architecture alone, most of the optimization is on a by-card basis and not really connected to the architecture nearly as much as you may think.

 
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Here's a great retrospective of driver releases over the course of 2012. This will give you an idea of how much of a boost to expect over the remainder of 2013 and beyond.

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"2012 was a good year for NVIDIA in terms of new video card releases, and driver support. The GeForce GTX 600 series started off strong, and ended strong for the year. It seemed more often than not NVIDIA got its driver optimizations for games right the first time. This is something that buyers should take into consideration for any graphics card series. It is important to look back at the history, and support for new games as they are released. Most of you reading this are like us, we pre-order games, and start playing our brand new shiny game immediately when it unlocks in Steam. It is at that moment, at that time, that we must have proper driver support and optimizations for these games on our video cards. We play these games as soon as they are launched, and day 1 game support is of most importance. We want drivers that optimize performance, and provide SLI support immediately. NVIDIA has a good track record for 2012 of providing this.

Our testing has shown that even on games that were out the entire year, we didn't see wide sweeping performance improvements throughout the year. There were small percentage improvements in real-world gaming, for games that were out the entire lifetime of the cards. However, it seems toward the end of 2012 we saw a large jump in performance in most games. From driver 310.33 and onward, we did see larger performance increases."
http://hardocp.com/article/2013/01/21/2012_nvidia_video_card_driver_performance_review/1#.UZwxbBPn-Uk
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/03/04/2012_amd_nvidia_driver_performance_summary_review/#.UZwwWxPn-Uk
 
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