NVIDIA’s next major GPU driver branch to drop support for GeForce GTX 700, 900 and 10 series
NVIDIA’s next major GPU driver branch to drop support for GeForce GTX 700, 900 and 10 series
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Its…..its over.
Kinda fell wrong for 10 series …
First I was like “Wow, they just kill the 10 series with the same driver as the 700Series?”, but I think they only mean those odd Maxwell cards that were sold as 700 series.
The party formally ends for the GOAT, GTX 1080 Ti. Pascal bows out as one of NVIDIA’s finest generations with NVIDIA’s greatest mistake in the 11GB GTX 1080 Ti. It’s never over until the last GTX 1080 Ti dies. Salute to the legend.
A roughly 10 years cycle seems fairly reasonable. It’s not like they’re gonna detonate all of those cards either you can just keep using them as long as you don’t try to play the latest games that you need a driver update for.
So the last drivers for those GPYs are going to be December’s
Oh no
ok rtx2060, contract will still be active.
Killing 10 series while popular live service games from 2015-2020 are still active. Fortnite, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2, Apex Legends, Warframe, .
Photorealistic/ movie Pixar quality games example before RTX generation: Arkham Knight, 2017 EA Star Wars Battlefront 2, 2018 Forza Horizon 4, NFS 2015.
Nothing like World of Warcraft.
How about 16 series? I have a 1650 will it survive?
1080 ti is the “mistake” nvidia will never make again
So I need to finally replace my Titan?
Nooooo not my GTX970!
I think its a tad “on the nose” to drop Pascal support at the same time as Maxwell considering the later is ~2 years older. Also, previously when the cards lost support, they tended to be totally obsolete for performance applications. Pascal is still usable for many games.
I guess they’ve made the call to stop supporting anything non RTX (with the exception of the 1600 series). The cards still got 10 years of support though, which many of the earlier Nvidia cards also got (vs the 5 years for AMD GCN 3.0 and earlier).
The main impact initially will be a lack of optimisation for newer games, but over time it will mean other bug fixes aren’t carried over either.
I *just* upgraded everything else in my partner’s 10 year old PC to be future-proofed, leaving the GTX 750 Ti in there as it’s still functional for her uses.
What does this news mean in practical terms? Will some games / apps stop working after the updates stop? Will they just become increasingly unoptimised?
Do they even support the 5000 series? With the amount of crashes the latest drivers have…
It’s insane how they can just tell perfectly healthy GPUs to just fuck off, what about e-waste, they still work, I can play every damn game I want with optimized graphics at native 1080p
It’s GEover.
RIP my 1070ti, you had a good run.
I mean I know it will still work but it’s deffo time to upgrade.
I’ll eke it out and see what the 5070ti super looks like early next year
Wonder how long the 1080 will survive from now then
Salute to the 10 series. Best generation to exist in my opinion!
It’s the end of an era.
Rest well Pascal.
It ended 10 driver releases ago.
It’s interesting that they are going to drop support for all cards without the [GPU System Processor](https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64//510.39.01/README/gsp.html). I wonder if this means the GSP will now be enabled by default.
It’s Joever
Why the 10 series? It has some still good cards you can get for cheap.
if you don’t play many high end games then there’s still no reason to upgrade. most people don’t update their drivers anyways.
Great, there goes the greatest lineup they had going that was affordable, decent performance, and wasn’t filled with pure greed. Honestly feel wrong they just include 10xx series with 7xx and 9xx like that, I mean there also 16xx which they didn’t include for some reason.
1080ti best card lasted more longer others.
1070/1080 great price for MSRP.
1060 was a joke with 3GB and 6GB model.
1050/ti was $100 & $140 MSRP we will never see again thanks to RTX.
1030 ~$80 card for all those extreme budget turning workstations PC into gaming PCs back in the day, even with 1050/ti. We never see another card like this down the line being less than $100 brand new.
I mean those cards are literally a decade+ old
This is misleading, from what I read it’s the driver branch after 580. So you might still have a year or 2.
Damn that sucks. I just sold a 1070 to a guy for his kids build.
My 1060….
10 series as in 1080 1070 etc? Damn . Pour one out
I guess it’s time for my GTX 970 to retire and put it on the wall mount
This for sure won’t cause this sub to melt down again and start circle jerking itself to the 1080Ti even though these old cards weren’t getting much driver updates these days, right?
I’m very surprised the 10 series is taken the hit
https://preview.redd.it/b4sucxgbi9af1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53b6a0829ec48b3333fe8021822b90a80d06c082
But can we make an exception for the 1080ti?
https://preview.redd.it/3mrpg6hpx9af1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0cb95fab33a41da0bc88e1a4e0d882b727e41db