Nvidia will end critical updates for Kepler laptops on April 2020

Now that Turing is in full swing, Nvidia will begin cutting support for some of its older GPU families. If you still have any of these following laptop Kepler GPUs, then expect your last critical update to be on April 2020.

Note that all desktop Kepler GPUs, like the GeForce GTX 780 or GTX 660, will continue to be supported. Additionally, the above laptop Kepler GPUs will still receive Game Ready Driver updates for the time being. Even so, we encourage any Kepler owners out there to consider purchasing a Pascal-based laptop especially since prices for these systems have been steadily dropping.

The Nvidia Kepler architecture is three generations behind the current Turing architecture for consumer graphics cards. It focused heavily on improving performance-per-Watt and reducing heat output which the older Fermi architecture was lambasted for.