Nvidia confirms upcoming end of driver support for GTX 700, 900, and 10 series GPUs

Nvidia has officially confirmed that its upcoming major driver branch, Release 580, will be the last to support several older GPU architectures, including Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta. This means that the long lifecycle of popular product lines such as the GeForce GTX 700, GTX 900, GTX 10 series, and the Titan V will come to an end with the subsequent release of the next major driver branch — Release 590.

According to an updated UNIX graphics driver deprecation schedule, Nvidia states:

The Release 580 series will be the last to support GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures.

Although the update specifically refers to UNIX systems, Nvidia’s driver architecture is unified across platforms, so this end-of-life (EOL) designation will also apply to Windows. As a result, once Release 590 arrives, Nvidia will no longer provide Game Ready drivers, performance optimizations, or security updates for these legacy GPUs.

Among the affected products are:

• Maxwell architecture: GeForce GTX 750, 750 Ti, and GTX 900 series
• Pascal architecture: GeForce GTX 10 series (e.g., GTX 1060, 1070, 1080)
• Volta architecture: Titan V — the only consumer-oriented card based on this architecture

Importantly, Nvidia will continue to support the newer Turing-based GeForce GTX 16 series GPUs, which remain unaffected by this update.

The Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures have powered Nvidia GPUs for between eight and eleven years — a remarkable lifespan in the fast-moving GPU market. While this may come as a disappointment to users of legacy systems, the company has arguably extended support well beyond the typical hardware lifecycle.

Users of affected GPUs will still be able to use existing drivers from the 580 branch, but no further updates will be issued after the release of driver version 590. Nvidia has not yet announced a launch date for Release 580, giving users some time to prepare for the eventual transition.