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The release notes say that CUDA support for the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU architectures "is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release." While all of these architectures—which collectively cover GeForce GPUs from the old GTX 700 series all the way up through 2016's GTX 1000 series, plus a couple of Quadro and Titan workstation cards—are still currently supported by Nvidia's December Game Ready driver package, the end of new CUDA feature support suggests that these GPUs will eventually be dropped from these driver packages soon.

 

The whole GTX line will soon be deprecated and head for retirement. This also could be a headwind to a possible cut-off point for future Direct3D and Vulkan API major spec's update.

 

Sources: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/nvidia-winding-down-support-for-older-gpus-including-the-legendary-750-ti-and-1060

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That's very sad. Pascal was the best line of GPUs ever made.

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5 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

fair enough when some pascal cards are approaching 9 years old now

 

the real question is how 2016 was 9 years ago because now i feel old asf

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For indication, looking at the latest Steam Hardware Survey results, about 74% of listed NV GPUs are RTX models. This is generally consistent with previous months. If you go back a year, it was 63%.

 

Maxwell GPUs are pretty insignificant now at about 1/10 of Pascal. Pascal numbers are comparable to sum of listed RDNA+Vega+Polaris GPUs. 

 

I did wonder if Nvidia might phase out GPUs generation by generation, where Maxwell would get dropped before Pascal. But the feature difference between GTX and RTX era does make that a potential cutoff point. It would be a bit awkward for Turing gen with a mix of GTX and RTX if they did it that way.

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3 hours ago, porina said:

For indication, looking at the latest Steam Hardware Survey results, about 74% of listed NV GPUs are RTX models. This is generally consistent with previous months. If you go back a year, it was 63%.

 

Maxwell GPUs are pretty insignificant now at about 1/10 of Pascal. Pascal numbers are comparable to sum of listed RDNA+Vega+Polaris GPUs. 

 

I did wonder if Nvidia might phase out GPUs generation by generation, where Maxwell would get dropped before Pascal. But the feature difference between GTX and RTX era does make that a potential cutoff point. It would be a bit awkward for Turing gen with a mix of GTX and RTX if they did it that way.

Kepler was phased out in driver 470. Maxwell was phased out in 516.93 (not supported by the Studio driver)

 

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https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html

 

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The 900 and 700 parts still show up in the current game-ready driver

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My sister is currently using my old GTX 960. Keep offering to loan her my RTX 3060 (probably on an indefinite basis unless my laptop suddenly blows up), but she also keeps declining. She plays Sims and American Trucking Simulator, so not as though she plays anything really outlandish on it. 🤷‍♂️
 

Still, a decade is a pretty damn long time for any product to be receiving driver updates. 

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1 hour ago, Kisai said:

Kepler was phased out in driver 470. Maxwell was phased out in 516.93 (not supported by the Studio driver)

The 900 and 700 parts still show up in the current game-ready driver

I missed that Maxwell dropped off Studio drivers. I had seen they were still in GRD.

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21 hours ago, Kisai said:

Kepler was phased out in driver 470. Maxwell was phased out in 516.93 (not supported by the Studio driver)

 

 

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html

 

 

The 900 and 700 parts still show up in the current game-ready driver

 

 


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On 1/24/2025 at 9:06 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

fair enough when some pascal cards are approaching 9 years old now

 

the real question is how 2016 was 9 years ago because now i feel old asf

I'd also say that stopping development of new features and ending support are pretty far away from each other. I have a GT 620 in use purely for adding video output to a system without integrated graphics... it works perfectly in Windows 11 with automatically downloaded drivers. The older cards should continue to work fine in applications that they can handle.

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On 1/25/2025 at 5:34 AM, porina said:

I did wonder if Nvidia might phase out GPUs generation by generation, where Maxwell would get dropped before Pascal. But the feature difference between GTX and RTX era does make that a potential cutoff point. It would be a bit awkward for Turing gen with a mix of GTX and RTX if they did it that way.

It looks like they're just culling new features for the non-GSP GPUs. Volta has Tensor cores, unlike Pascal and Maxwell, so the only thing that makes me think it was included in that mix was the lack of the GSP.

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On 1/25/2025 at 1:49 AM, williamcll said:

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1 hour ago, igormp said:

It looks like they're just culling new features for the non-GSP GPUs.

I had to look that up as I forgot that it even existed. It could be one way to simplify support going forwards to cut it that way.

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1 hour ago, Inkz said:

I hope they at least give the 10 series extended time, the 1080 ti while aging still is strong for quite a good amount of games.

They are not taking it abilities away, it's just not receiving game ready drivers for much longer. It will still be as good as it is now for existing games.

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RIP my 1060.

 

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On 1/25/2025 at 2:03 PM, Zodiark1593 said:

My sister is currently using my old GTX 960. Keep offering to loan her my RTX 3060 (probably on an indefinite basis unless my laptop suddenly blows up), but she also keeps declining. She plays Sims and American Trucking Simulator, so not as though she plays anything really outlandish on it. 🤷‍♂️

Ah yes, the good old times. I still remember when my GTX 660Ti easily ran Battlefield 3 on 1080p ultra. And newer games don't even look that much better...

 

But on topic, it's very sad that Pascal will soon be left hanging. My 1080Ti was such a powerhouse of a GPU. It'll still run, but newer games will likely get worse and worse.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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