Overview

• Nvidia has announced that its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU architectures will be moved to a legacy driver branch, ceasing new feature updates.
• CUDA 12.8 release notes confirm support for these architectures is now 'feature-complete' and will be frozen in an upcoming release.
• The transition will not immediately affect GeForce gaming driver support, with Maxwell and Pascal GPUs still supported by the GeForce RTX series driver.
• The GTX 16-series, based on the Turing architecture, will become the only GTX-series GPUs with full support once the change is finalized.
• Legacy driver updates for these GPUs will focus on security fixes, but users will not receive performance optimizations or new features.