NVIDIA Extends Windows 10 Driver Support For Some GPUs, Puts Others Out To Pasture

NVIDIA's older-generation graphics cards enjoyed a pretty good run, but time waits for neither man nor GPU. The company has announced that this October's Game Ready driver release will be the last one for a number of its vintage cards.

This date isn't accidental, as it coincides with the end of Microsoft's support for Windows 10, and the cutoff combo marks the end of an era. The October driver release will be the final one for cards in the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta families. Here's a summarized list of affected cards:

• Maxwell: GeForce GTX 700, 800, and 900 families; Titan / X / X Pascal / Xp; Quadro M-series cards; some Jetson chips.
• Pascal: GeForce 10xx family; Tesla P100.
• Volta: Tesla V100 (part of NVIDIA DGX-1), Quadro GC100, Titan V.

Note that the Pascal series does not include NVIDIA's 16xx-series cards like the popular GeForce GTX 1660 ...