Little by little, time goes by, and when you think about it, the GTX 1000s came out 9 years ago, compared with 11 years for the GTX 900s and 12 years for the GTX 700s. Yes, the wheels are turning, and it’s surprising that NVIDIA continues to maintain driver support for these generations. But things are about to change. The chameleon has announced that its next driver branch will be the last to support these series
GTX 1000, 900 and 700: end of driver support approaching!
In a post on its developer forum, Greens announces some bad news for users of older GTXs: support for the GTX 1000, 700 and 900 is under threat. Indeed, the next driver branch, the 800, could well be the last to support these cards. Admittedly, this is the UNIX branch, but driver branches are also shared with Windows. So what does this mean in concrete terms? Well, the same as with the other support ends. Roughly speaking, boards will no longer benefit from feature additions or bug fixes… Unless, of course, a major problem arises. The only thing that might still be deployed is security updates in the event of a breach, but don’t expect much more than that. On the other hand, with these series, we’re dealing with “old-fashioned” cards. They are devoid of new technologies such as ray tracing and tensor core support. However, there is one GTX series that is not affected by this end of support, since the GTX 16s are still on the rails. As a reminder, these were cards launched in conjunction with the RTX 20, hardware without RT core or tensor core either… But more recent.
