NVIDIA developers team announced that starting with the NVIDIA GPU driver 580 branch, these three generation of GPUs will get their last driver updates.
NVIDIA to End the GPU Driver Support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs After 580 Series Drivers
The NVIDIA developer team has provided an update on the GPU driver support, and as we can see, this new update announced today is specifically related to some of the previous generation of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs. If you are aware, the Fermi and Kepler GPUs, i.e., GTX 500 and GTX 600 series cards, have already stopped receiving the latest GPU driver updates from NVIDIA, and the next will be the following three generations of graphics cards.
As per NVIDIA, it is set to offer some of the last driver updates for the GTX 700 (Maxwell), 900 (Maxwell), 1000 (Pascal), and Volta class cards in the driver series 580. Currently, NVIDIA is on its 570 driver series, which started with the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, and with one of the next major updates, the GPUs in the above-mentioned series will receive their last official driver updates. That said, it's a usual routine for hardware manufacturers to drop driver support for older components, and the above-mentioned GPU series are roughly 8-11 years old.
The release date of the NVIDIA GPU driver 580 series hasn't yet been disclosed, but we are quite close to it. Perhaps, it will be rolled out before the end of this year, and considering the driver 580 series will keep delivering newer updates in the same branch for weeks or even a few months, the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU owners can still receive regular updates for several months from now.
*The article has been updated as both Windows and Linux will have the driver support dropped simultaneously.
News Sources: NVIDIA, Videocardz
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