Nvidia is discontinuing support for some long-standing graphics cards. According to the company, driver updates for graphics cards with Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures will end as of October 2025. As a result, GeForce GTX 700, 900, and 10-series graphics cards will no longer receive optimizations and performance improvements for new games.

Nvidia has discontinued some graphics cards

This decision affects a wide range of products, including popular models like the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. However, these cards will not be left completely unsupported.

Nvidia will continue to provide limited support for these models through quarterly security updates until 2028. The last full driver update was released earlier this week.

The company emphasized that it has provided uninterrupted software support for these cards for 11 years, significantly exceeding industry averages. Nvidia considers this extended support period a significant achievement in terms of its development policies. Users responded with messages of gratitude to the company on social media and community forums.

The support cut is driven by a strategic resource management decision. The company now intends to direct its resources to the RTX 20, 30, and 40 series graphics cards, which are based on newer architectures. These models require greater software and optimization investments for next-generation technologies like AI acceleration, ray tracing, and DLSS. Consequently, the engineering effort allocated to older-generation cards is becoming a factor that slows down the development of current products.

With NVIDIA’s move, game developers and hardware enthusiasts, in particular, will see future performance increases only in newer graphics cards. While older models will continue to be protected from security concerns, they will gradually fall behind in full compatibility with newer games.