Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060
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Summary
Nvidia has released its first GPUs in its new RTX 50 range, together with the news that it is to stop developing CUDA features for some of its older architectures, indicating that it is planning to cease supporting these GPUs altogether in the future.
The architectures due for phase-out include Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta, which between them cover around a hundred different GPUs released between 2014 and 2016.
These GPUs still currently receive Nvidia’s Game Ready driver packages, which optimise performance for games, however, these will eventually be discontinued in favour of new CUDA feature support for more modern GPUs.
This is a common practice among GPU manufacturers, with Nvidia itself having last dropped support for several older GPUs in 2021, and AMD having done likewise just last year.