NVIDIA starts with RTX 5090 and is launching the first volley of the RTX 50 Series GPU based on the new Blackwell Architecture to work downward. According to these CUDA release notes discovered by TOM’s hardware, the company also seems to support some old GPU architectures.
According to the release notes, Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU architecture CUDA support is “considered feature complete and will be frozen in future release.” All of these architectures covers the GeForce GPU of the old GTX 700 series in addition to the 2016 GTX 1000 series, and also covers several Quadro and Titan workstation cards. NVIDIA’s December Game Preparation Package, The The The The The The The The The them is covered with all the architecture cards. All. The end of the new CUDA function support suggests that these GPUs will be deleted immediately from these driver packages.
NVIDIA and AMDs generally support different architecture batches at once every few years. NVIDIA lasted an old card support in 2021, and AMD dropped several famous GPU support in 2023. The two companies maintain another driver brunch for some old cards, but they usually only make a release of security and focus on renewing security. We do not provide optimization of new features and performance of new games.
