Nvidia is making nice strides with its latest technology of graphics playing cards. With the Blackwell sequence (i.e., the thrilling new RTX 50 sequence), Nvidia is specializing in highly effective GPUs that rely ever extra on AI options and AI-driven enhancements.
When you personal an older Nvidia graphics card, although, issues are getting tight. Based on the discharge notes for CUDA 12.8 — Nvidia’s programming interface that permits its GPUs for use for normal functions — a number of GPU fashions are actually thought of “feature-complete” and will probably be “frozen” in an upcoming launch, studies Tom’s {Hardware}.
Affected GPU fashions are ones which have Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures, which embody all Nvidia graphics playing cards from GeForce 700 as much as and together with Nvidia’s 10 sequence. They’re all deprecated, out of date, and ready to be placed on ice.
What does this imply for you?
When you personal one in all these affected Nvidia GPUs, your GPU will now not obtain any new options by way of future updates, so don’t anticipate any extra enhancements or optimizations going ahead. Nonetheless, fundamental safety fixes will probably proceed through driver updates.
So, should you’re okay with that, you may hold utilizing your GPU and don’t must eliminate it immediately. No particular date has been introduced for finish of help, however it can probably include the following CUDA replace.
Nvidia broke new requirements with all three GPU sequence which are about to be shuttered, whether or not when it comes to uncooked efficiency, power effectivity, or being the primary structure for cellular GPUs (Maxwell). Although these are actually up to now, the corporate continues to interrupt new floor and reveals no indicators of slowing down or stopping any time quickly.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
