First NVIDIA 590 driver released, support for GTX 10/900 series dropped
The first driver is for Linux OS, Windows release may be imminent.
And so it begins, the official deprecation of the older GeForce architectures has now started. Back in July, NVIDIA announced that its upcoming (at the time) 580 driver branch would be the final branch supporting the GeForce GTX 900 (Maxwell) and 10 (Pascal) series. NVIDIA also dropped support for Volta, but in discrete GPU form it only arrived as a TITAN GPU, so we do not expect driver changes to have any significant effect.
What is important is that the first 590 driver is for Linux, and the description is not accurate, still listing support for these architectures. However, users on NVIDIA forums have already confirmed that it does not support GTX 10 era GPUs.
Source: NVIDIA
The 590.44.01 beta driver does not support GTX 1050 Ti:
Source: Tekstryder
Officially, NVIDIA said that October would mark the last time the GTX 10/900 series would receive Game Ready updates, but this support was extended until late November when the 581.80 driver was released . We may now consider this the final driver for Windows with support for these architectures.
NVIDIA has not yet released a Windows 590 driver, and Linux versions do not always match Windows, so perhaps it is not yet the final driver for Windows. It will depend on what we see in the upcoming update.
Users should remember that NVIDIA will not completely drop driver support. The company announced that these up to 11-year-old architectures will move to quarterly security updates . This means that users will simply lose Game Ready support for the latest gaming titles.
Source: NVIDIA
