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(Image credit: Nvidia) The Nvidia GeForce cards released in the mid-2010s were a pretty hot commodity. Many here will likely have fond memories of the massively popular GTX 970, 1070, and 1080 GPUs. All good things must come to an end, however, and the recently released Nvidia 590-series Linux beta drivers have confirmed what we'd already figured would happen: feature support for 900-series and 10-series cards is officially finished.
Linux users have historically actually been luckier than mere Windows peons, as feature support on the penguin-infused operating system used to continue for longer. That's no longer the case since 2024, as Nvidia's release schedule for both OSes has been in lockstep, especially as they share a common development branch. Reportedly , Nvidia forum users installed the 590 beta release and confirmed the older cards' deprecation.
It should be noted that the newer drivers not supporting the vintage cards doesn't mean that support for them is ending completely—much the opposite, in fact. Last October, as per usual procedure, Nvidia announced that 900- and 10-series GPUs would be moving to the legacy support model , with their respective final drivers seeing security updates until October 2028.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/geforce-590-driver-branch-is-the-first-without-feature-support-for-gtx-9-and-10-series-gpus-linux-release-marks-the-end-of-the-line-for-graphics-cards-that-defined-an-era#main
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