NVIDIA's Maxwell, Pascal, & Volta GPUs will continue to receive GeForce Game Ready Driver support till October this year, while Windows 10 will continue receiving GRD support till October 2026, applicable on all RTX GPUs.
NVIDIA's GeForce Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU Game Ready Driver Support Continues Till October 2025, Security Updates Till October 2028
NVIDIA has one of the industry's widest GPU support for its consumer-tier products. The green team has support for GTX 700 and up to the latest RTX 50 series. These are six generations and several families, but the company is offering an update on its support plan, which is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year.
TLDR:
- GeForce/Quadro GPUs based on Maxwell, Pascal, Volta architectures will receive GRD support till October 2025
- GeForce/Quadro GPUs based on Maxwell, Pascal, Volta architectures will receive security updates till October 2028
- All RTX GPUs will receive GRD support on Windows 10 till October 2026
As per the official NVIDIA announcement, NVIDIA will be shipping the final GRD (Game Ready Driver) for its GeForce graphics cards based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. The same is true for the Quadro lineup. After the final GeForce GRD driver in October 2025, there will be no game support offered on the respective products based on these architectures, but they will continue to receive quarterly security patch updates till October 2028, so that's another 3 years before these GPUs reach complete EOL.
Also, after a final Game Ready Driver release in October 2025, GeForce GPUs based on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures will transition to receiving quarterly security updates for the next three years (through October 2028). Our support lifetime for these GPUs reaches up to 11 years, well beyond industry norms. Also, we’re extending Windows 10 Game Ready Driver support for all GeForce RTX GPUs to October 2026, a year beyond the operating system’s end-of-life, to ensure users continue to receive the latest day 0 optimizations for new games and apps.
via NVIDIA
NVIDIA's Maxwell GPUs were first introduced within the GeForce 700 series with two entry-level products, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and the GTX 750. These were a preview of the Maxwell architecture, and the start of the company's heighten its efficiency gains.
After that, NVIDIA released the GeForce 900 series, which was the formal introduction of the Maxwell architecture across a full top-to-bottom lineup. Then we got the Pascal "GeForce 10" series, which saw the introduction of the now legendary "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti". The support plan also lists down Volta, which never saw a GeForce product launch, but there was the Titan V, a prosumer offering featuring the GV100 GPU.
So all in all, quite the memories there as most of our readers, not only for me but all of us PC builders who either bought one of these GPUs as their first time purchase or upgraded from an older one.
In addition to this, NVIDIA has also extended GeForce Game Ready Driver support for Windows 10 across all RTX GPUs to October 2026. This is good news for those running Microsoft's Windows 10 OS. Windows 11 has only now started to gain more market share than Windows 10, which means that a lot of users are still running the previous OS.
There are plenty of PCs with GeForce RTX GPUs (RTX 20, RTX 30, RTX 40, RTX 50). This driver support will ensure that these PCs will continue receiving the latest Day 0 optimizations for new games and apps.
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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