Overview

• Nvidia will release a final Game Ready Driver for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs in October 2025.
• Those architectures will transition to quarterly security-only updates through October 2028.
• Affected GPUs will cease receiving performance optimizations and CUDA toolkit support but will continue to get fixes for major security vulnerabilities.
• The support window for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta cards spans up to 11 years, exceeding the typical six-year cycle offered by competitors.
• Game Ready Driver support for all RTX GPUs on Windows 10 has been extended to October 2026, a year beyond the operating system’s scheduled end-of-support.