Friday, January 24th 2025
NVIDIA Likely Sending Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Architectures to CUDA Legacy Branch
Team Green's CUDA 12.8 release notes have revealed upcoming changes for three older GPU architectures—the document's "Deprecated and Dropped Features" section outlines forthcoming changes. A brief sentence outlines a less active future for affected families: "architecture support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release." Further down, NVIDIA states that a small selection of operating systems have been dropped from support lists, including Microsoft Windows 10 21H2 and Debian 11.
Refocusing on matters of hardware—Michael Larabel, Phoronix's editor-in-chief, has kindly provided a bit of history and context. "Four years ago with the NVIDIA 470 series was the legacy branch for GeForce GTX 600 and 700 Kepler series and now as we embark on the NVIDIA 570 driver series, it looks like it could end up being the legacy branch for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations of GPUs." Larabel and other industry watchdogs reckon that the incoming "Blackwell" generation is taking priority, with Team Green likely freeing up resources and concentrating less on taking care of decade+ old hardware. VideoCardz believes that gaming GPU support will continue—at least for Maxwell (e.g. GeForce GTX 900) and Pascal (GeForce GTX 10 series)—based on a playtesting of the toolkit's latest set of integrated drivers (version 571.96).
Sources:
Phoronix, VideoCardz, NVIDIA Docs
Refocusing on matters of hardware—Michael Larabel, Phoronix's editor-in-chief, has kindly provided a bit of history and context. "Four years ago with the NVIDIA 470 series was the legacy branch for GeForce GTX 600 and 700 Kepler series and now as we embark on the NVIDIA 570 driver series, it looks like it could end up being the legacy branch for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations of GPUs." Larabel and other industry watchdogs reckon that the incoming "Blackwell" generation is taking priority, with Team Green likely freeing up resources and concentrating less on taking care of decade+ old hardware. VideoCardz believes that gaming GPU support will continue—at least for Maxwell (e.g. GeForce GTX 900) and Pascal (GeForce GTX 10 series)—based on a playtesting of the toolkit's latest set of integrated drivers (version 571.96).
36 Comments on NVIDIA Likely Sending Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Architectures to CUDA Legacy Branch
because atm i have zero income, in form of money.
ignoring this does not mean i sleep on the street or dont know what to eat tomorrow.
my problem is Nv charged a lot to ppl buying (decent) RTX, upper 3 digits prices should get you some support (vs say 1040).
and like Lex said, its not always about supporting the latest game or lack thereof, which im not concerned with, as i didnt see anything worth spending 60-100$ on (even if i had it).
besides, siege for example, isnt new, but they still added stuff like vulcan/reflex later, and the next time (this or other games), it might be an issue without newer driver.
Order date: 09 Sep, 2022
Order total: £115.00
I only play a few games anyway so Indiana Jones can go do one :D
Subnautica had it's issues in whqd wiht the worst settings. Framerate was around 15-20 FPS. Stuff popping up slowly one after another.
I tested a few of my free epic games. Games are more demanding as I expected before that point.
Well, if you say, or claim people can play with a 960. Go on - have fun.
That encased game from epic game store looks like not demanding. That is a pain to play with the Ryzen 7600X cpu graphics with 16GiB from the DRAM only for the cpu graphics.Well that is nvidia way. I had also to use legacy drivers for my nvidia 660m GTX in my ASUS G75VW notebook. Legacy nvidia drivers in gnu gentoo linux was a hassle
6 or 7 years is the usual nvidia way to declare "legacy graphic card".