Yesterday, NVIDIA launched its first GeForce 590 drivers, which mark the end of game-ready support for Maxwell, Pascal & Volta GPUs.
NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, Volta GPUs, Including GTX 1080 Ti, See End of GeForce Game Ready Driver Support After 590 Driver Release
NVIDIA had hinted that GeForce GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures will stop receiving driver updates, such as GRD (Game Ready Drivers), after the 580 branch. Well, it looks like that finally happened yesterday with the release of the new 590 branch, which now supports GPUs starting at the GeForce 16 series and up (Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Blackwell). The company had already done that over at Linux.
This doesn't mean that these GPUs won't receive any driver support at all; they will be moved to the legacy branch and will continue to get security patches and updates whenever required. But those of you still running pre-GeForce 16/20 series GPUs should know that you will no longer get game-ready driver support.
Following is the full list of GeForce Desktop and GeForce Mobile GPUs that are now supported in the GeForce 590+ drivers:
NVIDIA 590+ Driver Branch GPU Support (Desktop):
| GPU Name | Architecture |
|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 5090 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5090 D | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5090 D v2 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5080 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5070 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5060 Ti | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5060 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5050 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4090 D | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4060 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3080 12GB | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3060 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3060 8GB | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3050 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3050 OEM | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3050 6GB | Ampere |
| TITAN RTX | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2080 | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2070 | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2060 12GB | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Turing |
NVIDIA 590+ Driver Branch GPU Support (Mobile):
| GPU Name | Architecture |
|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 5090 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5080 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5060 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 5050 | Blackwell |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4060 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 4050 | Ada Lovelace |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3060 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3050 | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 3050 Ti | Ampere |
| GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2080 | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2070 | Turing |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Turing |
| GeForce GTX 1650 | Turing |
| GeForce MX450 | Turing |
With this release, NVIDIA's GeForce 16 series will be the last "GTX" products that continue to get game-ready driver support. Moving forward, Turing (GeForce 16/20), Ampere (GeForce 30), Ada Lovelace (GeForce 40), and Blackwell (GeForce 50) series GPUs will be the ones to receive GRD support.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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