Yesterday, NVIDIA launched its first GeForce 590 drivers , which mark the end of game-ready support for Maxwell, Pascal & Volta GPUs.

NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, Volta GPUs, Including GTX 1080 Ti, See End of GeForce Game Ready Driver Support After 590 Driver Release

NVIDIA had hinted that GeForce GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures will stop receiving driver updates, such as GRD (Game Ready Drivers), after the 580 branch. Well, it looks like that finally happened yesterday with the release of the new 590 branch, which now supports GPUs starting at the GeForce 16 series and up (Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Blackwell). The company had already done that over at Linux .

This doesn't mean that these GPUs won't receive any driver support at all; they will be moved to

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