NVIDIA has officially ended support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards with its latest Linux drivers.
NVIDIA 590 Driver Drops Support for GTX 900 and 1000 Series on Linux
As time passes, hardware that’s several years old eventually loses official support — and that’s exactly what has happened to NVIDIA’s graphics cards. The company confirmed back in July that the 580 drivers would be the last to support Maxwell, Pascal, and even Volta architectures. Now, that announcement has become a reality.
NVIDIA recently released the 590 drivers for Linux, and while the official notes do not explicitly mention the removal of support for these architectures, several users have already confirmed that their GTX 900 and 1000 series GPUs are no longer supported on the Linux operating system.
Although NVIDIA didn’t include it in the official announcement, the company stated in October that the GTX 10/900 series would receive its final Game Ready updates with driver version 510.80. Therefore, if you’re using Linux with any of these graphics cards, unfortunately, you’ll no longer receive official support.
What About Windows?
So, what happens with Windows? NVIDIA has not confirmed anything yet. In some cases, Linux and Windows drivers follow different release paths. At the moment, the 590 driver has not been released for Microsoft’s operating system, but it’s possible that another version could arrive in the future.
Still, there’s an important detail worth noting: NVIDIA has confirmed that complete support removal will not happen immediately. Even though these cards are over 11 years old, they will continue to receive quarterly security updates.
