NVIDIA is planning to retire regular driver updates for its older, pre-RTX GPU generations after October 2025, the company announced. These include the GeForce GTX 900 series based on the "Maxwell" graphics architecture, the sole gaming graphics card powered by "Volta," the GeForce TITAN V, and the GeForce GTX 10-series based on the "Pascal" graphics architecture. The company will continue regular Game Ready driver updates for GTX 16-series "Turing" besides all RTX 20-series, 30-series, 40-series, and 50-series GPUs.

With Microsoft stopping support for Windows 10, except for those on an extended support program, NVIDIA has decided to release drivers compatible with Windows 10 only till October 2026, following which the regular driver only cover Windows 11 and the future Windows 12 expected to release later this year. It is commendable that NVIDIA decided to support its pre-RTX architectures for this long, considering that the GTX 900-series debuted 11 years ago, the TITAN V 8 years ago, and the GTX 10-series 9 years ago.

Support Plan detailed in the 580.88 WHQL driver patch notes:
"After a final Game Ready Driver release in October 2025, GeForce GPUs based on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures will transition to receiving quarterly security updates for the next three years (through October 2028). Our support lifetime for these GPUs reaches up to 11 years, well beyond industry norms.
Also, we're extending Windows 10 Game Ready Driver support for all GeForce RTX GPUs to October 2026, a year beyond the operating system's end-of-life, to ensure users continue to receive the latest day-0 optimizations for new games and apps."