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The Circular Financing Bubble Company, NVIDIA, Harming People With "Old" GPUs and GNU/Linux
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WCCF Tech ☛ NVIDIA Ends Support For GTX 900 And GTX 10 Series In Linux With Driver Branch 590 [Ed: Nvidia's accounting is a hot mess if not an elaborate scam]
NVIDIA's Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs continued to get latest Game Ready drivers till October 2025, but have finally transitioned to just quarterly security updates. This was specifically for Windows, but NVIDIA has reportedly dropped GPU driver support for the Maxwell and Pascal GPUs for Linux as well. According to the latest beta Linux Driver 590.44.01, both the GTX 900 and GTX 10 series are now excluded from the supported GPU list.
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Video Cardz ☛ NVIDIA 590 Linux drivers drop GeForce GTX 900 “Maxwell” and GTX 10 “Pascal” support
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NVIDIA Deprecates GeForce GTX 900-Series "Maxwell" and GTX 10-Series "Pascal" With Linux 590 Driver
NVIDIA's latest driver branch, 590, currently available only on Linux, introduces new features along with some deprecations. It seems that the GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell" and GTX 10 "Pascal" series are nearing the end of their driver support. NVIDIA previously stated that the 580 driver series would be the last to fully support these older architectures, and reports from community members testing the v590.44.01 beta indicate that several Pascal-era cards are no longer recognized. Notably, users have reported that cards like the GTX 1050 Ti do not function with this Linux driver, even though the published release notes still list legacy support. This confirms that the official notes are wrong, and that future stable driver releases should carry correct notes of deprecation.
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Latest Nvidia Linux driver drops support for some older GTX graphics cards, including everyone’s favorite, 1080 Ti [Ed: Nvidia still Linux-hostile]
Nvidia has just released its latest display driver for Linux 64-bit systems. Display Driver 590.44.01 was released on December 2, but if you’re using another older than a GTX 16 series graphics card, then your GPU won’t be supported. The patch notes reveal support for desktop cards started at the GTX 16 series, up until the latest RTX 50 series. A wide range of mobile (Notebook) GPUs continue to be supported, too.
ALso in Tom's Hardware:
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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
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.
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Nvidia Linux driver 590, ends support for the GT series, all hail our RTX overloards!
What is shocking, however, is even with the thousands of available photos of the GTX 900 and 1000 series cards out there, WCC still resorts to AI to generate BS images like this