Nvidia confirms end of drivers for GTX 700, 900, and 10-series cards

Nvidia has announced the end of driver support for its GTX 700, 900, and 10-series graphics cards. The last Game Ready driver release for these Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta series GPUs will be in October 2022. This includes the popular GTX 1080 Ti and Titan V CEO Edition, as well as the entire GTX 900 and 10 series. After the October release, these cards will only receive quarterly security updates, without the performance and compatibility updates that are crucial for running the latest games smoothly. The change is seen as part of a broader trend, as Nvidia has also dropped support for Unix on the same chips. While some of the 10-series cards, particularly the GTX 1060 and 1050 Ti, are still widely used, the more expensive models have seen a decline in popularity as users have likely upgraded to newer hardware. Nvidia's Turing-based GTX 1630, 1650, 1650 Super, 1660, and 1660 Ti cards, released in 2019 and later, are not affected by this change and will continue to receive driver updates.