Overview

• After October 2025’s final Game Ready Driver, Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs will shift to quarterly security patches through October 2028 before support ends entirely.
• The upcoming CUDA Toolkit release will drop feature updates for those legacy architectures following their January feature freeze.
• Although they debuted nearly a decade ago, GTX 10-series cards still claim a significant share of PC gaming rigs, underscoring the impact of this deprecation.
• Nvidia’s extended maintenance window offers up to 11 years of updates for its older GPUs, outlasting AMD’s six-year RDNA support cycle.
• Without Tensor Cores or RT cores, Maxwell and Pascal models cannot run DLSS or hardware-accelerated ray tracing, driving the shift from performance tweaks to security fixes.