Nvidia Ending Driver Support for Older GTX Graphics Cards This October

Nvidia has announced that driver support for its older graphics cards will end in October. This affects users with GeForce GTX 7 series, 9 series, and 10 series cards. These cards use what are called Maxwell and Pascal architectures. After October 2025 there will be no more new feature or game-focused updates for these cards.

However Nvidia will not completely leave owners without help. For the next three years until October 2028 Nvidia will still release quarterly security updates for these older graphics cards. This means any major security problems will get fixed even after regular updates stop. Nvidia points out that this support period is much longer than most companies offer. Some of the affected cards were first released almost ten years ago.

Good news for users with Nvidia's newer RTX graphics cards. Nvidia will keep releasing special Windows 10 drivers with optimizations for new games through October 2026. This support will last a year longer than Microsoft’s own support for Windows 10.

It's important to know that GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 cards are not affected by this change. They use a newer technology called Turing and will continue to get updates. Cards with the Volta architecture are not included since they were meant for servers and not for gaming.

If you own a GTX 7, 9 or 10 series card you will stop getting new game optimizations after October 2025. You will still receive security fixes. Nvidia's approach offers more support than what is currently available for many of AMD's older graphics cards. This makes it a generous decision for people using aging Nvidia GPUs. But like all technology support eventually comes to an end.

If you want to keep your games running smoothly on the newest titles and you use one of these older cards it might be time to consider upgrading to a newer graphics card.

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