Winsage
August 1, 2025
Nvidia has confirmed the end of support for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta graphics architectures, with one final major driver update scheduled for October 2025. After this, users will receive quarterly security updates for these architectures until October 2028. Nvidia will continue to provide Windows 10 Game Ready Drivers for all RTX GPUs until October 2026. Maxwell includes the GeForce GTX 7 and 9 series, while Pascal is for the GTX 10 Series. The GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 are based on the Turing architecture, which is not affected. Volta is primarily for enterprise use and does not have gaming GPUs. Users will no longer receive "Game Ready" optimizations after the final driver release.