Nvidia is retiring the Geforce GTX 600 and GTX 700 series

At the end of May, it appeared in Nvidia’s document “Updated Software Support Matrix tables for datacenter GPUs” that the company planned to end the driver support for graphics cards based on the nine-year-old architecture Kepler. This affects the entire Geforce GTX 600 series and large parts of the GTX 700 series.

► Nvidia confirms: “The last Kepler driver will be released in August”

Now Nvidia has launched the driver Game Ready version 496.13, which means a transition to the Geforce R495 driver series. The graphics cards that are not allowed to accompany that series will instead be transferred to a so-called “Long Term Support Branch”, which in this case is the Geforce R470.

Grafikserie	Architecture	CUDA functions	Last driver with support
Geforce GTX 400 Geforce GTX 500	Fermi	2.0	R390
Geforce GTX 600 Geforce GTX 700 *	Kepler	3.0 / 3.2 3.5 / 3.7	R470
Geforce GTX 900	Maxwell	5.0 / 5.2 / 5.3	Currently
Geforce GTX 1000	Pascal	6.0 / 6.1	Currently
Geforce RTX 2000	Turing	7.5	Currently
Geforce RTX 3000	Ampere	8.0 / 8.6	Currently

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* Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 are based on the Maxwell architecture

The Kepler generation graphics card has almost a decade on its neck and since its debut in 2012, the technology has advanced rapidly. Nvidia has previously stated that they would rather prioritize their resources on software support for modern hardware.

However, users who still rely on any of the approximately 30 different models affected do not have to worry. The graphics cards do not become unusable and continue to receive the necessary security updates for another three years.

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How many years does your graphics card have on your neck?