Nvidia will officially end support for Kepler architecture GPUs on August 31

Today, Nvidia finally confirmed the relevant news and determined that after the release of the GeForce R470 GA5 driver on August 31, Kepler architecture products will no longer be supported. Users of these graphics cards will continue to receive security updates until September 2024. However, these users will lose the Game Ready driver upgrade, including performance improvements, new features, and bug fixes, and the GeForce R470 GA5 version driver also means the end of support for the Windows 7/8/8.1 operating system. The GeForce R495 GA1 version of the driver planned to be launched on October 4 will be the first GeForce graphics driver that does not support Kepler architecture products and operating systems prior to Windows 10.

In view of the fact that most users of GeForce graphics cards have migrated to the Windows 10 operating system, in order to ensure the best security, features, and support, the focus has been placed on the Windows operating system.