NVIDIA to End “Kepler” Support with R470 Drivers, 9 Years After Release: Support Roadmap

NVIDIA is planning to stop releasing driver updates to the “Kepler” generation of GPUs with the R470 driver series, according to a company driver support roadmap. Updated Software Support Matrix tables for datacenter GPUs, reveal, that the R470 drivers, released in 2021, will be the final driver updates to the “Kepler” architecture, completing 9 (!) years of driver updates since the architecture’s 2012 debut. Support for the older “Fermi” ended with R390. A roadmap diagram also explains the various branches under which NVIDIA drivers are developed and released.

Although the roadmap predominantly refers to data-center GPUs, it’s very likely that support for the GeForce GTX 600 “Kepler” series will end with GeForce R470 drivers, too, if not sooner. As of this writing, the current GeForce R465 series drivers do support GTX 600 series “Kepler,” even if not all day-one game optimizations are applied all the way back to this series.

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