NVIDIA is calling time on its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, with one last significant driver release scheduled for October. This means that all graphics cards belonging to the GeForce GTX 7-, 9- and 10-series categories will only receive quarterly security updates beyond the October cutoff, with support ending entirely three years later in 2028. While they’ll still work after that, they won’t be optimized for new games and are more vulnerable to technical exploits.
NVIDIA its 11-year support for the aging hardware “well beyond industry norms.” If you’ve been rocking a GTX card for the best part of a decade and don’t want to get left behind, now might be a good time to look into your GPU.
The other notable bit of news from NVIDIA is that its Game Ready Driver (GRD) support for Windows 10 on all RTX GPUs will run until October 2026. This is a year after Microsoft itself officially the operating system in a bid to move the last of the reluctant upgraders onto . Games will at least remain optimised for another year, provided you’re willing to risk continuing with an OS that is no longer receiving crucial security updates.
NVIDIA’s latest GRD update was released today, and includes optimizations for and the upcoming , as well as adding support for 62 new G-Sync compatible displays.
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