NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta

NVIDIA have given an update on their driver support for various GPUs, with an upcoming update being the last for a whole lot of cards.

While there’s no set date for when the NVIDIA 580 driver series will land for Linux, as NVIDIA don’t have a public release schedule, they’ve now confirmed the 580 series will be the last supported for GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures.

So with that in mind you’re looking at various cards across the GeForce 700 series, GeForce 900 series and GeForce 10 series. The cards should still keep running for quite some time after NVIDIA move on from the 580 series, but eventually you’ll notice issues with newer Linux kernels, games and applications.

Hopefully the open source Mesa drivers like NVK and Zink will continue to improve. Back in April, Collabora did announce these three architectures hit Vulkan 1.4 support for NVK.

The most recent driver releases were 575.64 and 570.169 released June 17th.

Source: NVIDIA

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.