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Nvidia to End Game Ready Driver Updates for Legacy GPUs in October 2025

Following the October 2025 driver release, legacy architectures will be limited to quarterly security patches through 2028 with full Windows 10 support for RTX cards extending to October 2026.

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NVIDIA's GTX 1080 Ti was one heck of a card, and I know many of you are still enjoying its performance.
Nvidia just called time on your old GeForce gaming GPU
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Overview

  • Nvidia will issue a final Game Ready Driver for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs in October 2025 before ending feature updates for those architectures.
  • After the last driver release, legacy GeForce cards will shift to quarterly security updates until October 2028 without further performance optimizations.
  • The deprecation affects GTX 700, GTX 900 and GTX 10-series gaming cards along with workstation Volta GPUs such as Titan V and Quadro GV100.
  • All GeForce RTX GPUs will continue receiving full Game Ready Driver support on Windows 10 until October 2026, one year beyond Microsoft’s end-of-support date.
  • Nvidia’s support window of up to 11 years for these older GPUs surpasses typical industry cycles and may prompt users to plan hardware or OS upgrades.