Lauded by many as the ‘Greatest Of All Time’ graphics card, the GTX 1080 Ti is a GPU that has remained relevant for a long time. However, Nvidia is ready to retire the card for good – or at least, stop supporting it with new drivers. At the start of July, we learned that the card will be losing driver support in the next major patch, though no specific date or window was given.

Nvidia has confirmed that after a final release in October 2025, Game Ready Drivers will no longer support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. These architectures cover the GTX 700, GTX 900, and GTX 10 series. A quick look at Steam’s hardware survey will tell you that just over 2% still use the GTX 1060, the highest of the series, while just under 1% have either the 1080 or 1080 Ti.

Nvidia will cut driver support for three architectures this October, security updates will continue until 2028

“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).”

Source: Nvidia

Nvidia goes on to say that the support lifetime of these GPUs reaches up to 11 years, “well beyond industry norms,” so it’s safe to say they’ve had a good run. On Steam, only the GTX 750 Ti is the only 700 series card recognized (0.26%), while the 900 series has a little more representation – the GTX 970 and 960 make up just over 0.5% of users combined. Anyone on a GTX 16 series GPU will not be affected, as those use Turing architecture; RTX owners are also safe.

GeForce Game Reader Drivers will continue to support Windows 10 until next year

“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.”

Source: Nvidia

Windows 10 Game Ready Driver support will be extended until October 2026, giving gamers another year of driver updates if they opt to stick to Windows 10 despite Microsoft dropping its own support this October. We’ve already seen PC gamers finally moving on given the threat of end-of-life, but those that stay can continue to look forward to day 0 optimizations.

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