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The Maxwell architecture technically goes all the way back to several later members of the GTX 700 series, starting with the low-end 745, 750, and 750 Ti released in early 2014. The latest consumer cards affected by this change will be the bombastic TITAN series, on the other end of the price and power spectrum, with the Titan V CEO Edition released in 2018. All GTX 900 and 10 series cards are included in these families.
After the 580 drivers are finished off in October, which is perhaps not coincidentally the same time that Windows 10 was slated to be killed, these cards will be switched to a quarterly security update schedule. But they won't be getting the more deliberate performance and compatibility updates, which Nvidia gamers rely upon to make sure the latest games run smoothly on their gaming desktops and laptops. The change was heralded by a drop in support for Unix on the same chips.
While they're getting harder to find, some of the 10-series cards are still popular, especially on the mid-range and budget side of things. The June 2025 Steam Hardware Survey still
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