Nvidia Ends Support for Numerous Graphics Cards
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- Nvidia made an update announcement, stating the company will stop releasing updates for select graphics cards.
- Nvidia will no longer update the GeForce GTX 700 (Maxwell), GTX 900 (Pascal) and Titan V.
- The next driver branch will be the last to support the three GPU architectures.
Nvidia’s next 580 driver branch will be the last to support the following three GPU architectures: Maxwell, Pascal and Volta. The Maxwell series includes the Nvidia GeForce GTX 700 and GTX 900. The GTX 10 series cards have the Pascal-based GPU architecture. The Nvidia Titan V, which is Volta-based, will no longer receive updates as well.
“The first post has been updated to note that the release 580 series will be the last to support GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures,” reads an official statement from Nvidia’s update forum, which lays out the Unix graphics feature depreciation schedule.
According to Insider Gaming, two of the mentioned graphics cards fall under Steam’s top 20 most-used graphics cards. The outlet references Steam’s latest hardware survey from May 2025, which states that the GeForce GTX 1060 is used in 2.24% of all member PCs, while the GTX 1050 Ti is used in 1.73%.
This marks the end of support for architectures that are eight to 11 years old. The official 580 driver brand release date was not revealed. Videocardz reported that the driver branch launch will likely be months away.
