Nvidia Starts Phasing Out Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs (tomshardware.com) 16
As spotted by Tom's Hardware, Nvidia's CUDA 12.8 release notes signal the transition of Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs to the legacy driver branch. As a result, there will be no more new feature updates for these architectures; however, CUDA and gaming driver support will remain for now. From the report: It's crucial to highlight that this has nothing to do with GeForce gaming driver support. In fact, Maxwell and Pascal continue to be on the support list for the GeForce RTX series driver, unlike Kepler. Nvidia didn't detail whether or when it'll drop support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs for the gaming driver.
Nvidia has not issued an exact date for the end of full support for these three GPU architectures, but it will soon. The current CUDA toolkit still supports the three affected architectures, but they won't receive future updates. Once the move goes through, the only remaining GTX-series GPUs with full support will be the GTX 16-series, based on the RTX 20-series' Turing architecture.
Nvidia has not issued an exact date for the end of full support for these three GPU architectures, but it will soon. The current CUDA toolkit still supports the three affected architectures, but they won't receive future updates. Once the move goes through, the only remaining GTX-series GPUs with full support will be the GTX 16-series, based on the RTX 20-series' Turing architecture.
Nvidia, page out of Microsoft's book (Score:2, Funny)
Well, better begin saving for a massive upgrade (Score:3)
A few months ago, I got a Hand Me Down GTX1070 8GB used in mining (I know the miner. Thanks to Intel XeSS (and, to a lesser exent, AMD's FSR), games are playable AND look great on my 1440p monitor (both XeSS and FSR do a MUCH better work upscaling than the built-in upscaler of the monitor anyway).
But, it will be sad to see active Driver support go. For instance, some update fixed FSR/XeSS use in Shadow of the Tomb Raider (had to use NIS before). Anywho, in 9 days time, I have an appointment with some "Alex Murphy" guy.
I plan on keeping using it until I replace my 6 core MacMini 2018**, and even beyond that date, with whatever laptop I buy.
Having said that, when replacement time comes, I'll probably get an intel Celestial/Cleric, or a Druid card, with a balanced system around it as my desktop (yes, that's how long I think I can strech this desktop and 1070 without sacrificyng security).
Worse still, My DS1515+ goes out of support soon to. I may extend it's life for a while, but it will be a COSTLY upgrade cycle... (though a VM with spenology or some FOSS NAS system on the same desktop may do the trick)
**Bootcamping for games
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You need more acronyms
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Intel needs to fix their dGPU driver overhead. Caveat emptor.
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Intel needs to fix their dGPU driver overhead. Caveat emptor.
Yest, that overhead is a problem, having said that, I guess that by the time we arrive at Celestial/Cleric or even better, Druid, that will be solved.
Besides, I think you missed the:
with a balanced system around it as my desktop
part
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They are not ending support for 10xx GPUs, they are ending development of new features, which means they will continue to run as is for now. I suspect given past results they will run for quite a while yet.
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They are not ending support for 10xx GPUs, they are ending development of new features, which means they will continue to run as is for now. I suspect given past results they will run for quite a while yet.
I know, they will only be doing security updates for the driver. but, did you not read when i said:
But, it will be sad to see active Driver support go. For instance, some update fixed FSR/XeSS use in Shadow of the Tomb Raider (had to use NIS before).
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Hmmm good point.
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the GTX1070 and GTX1080 are still excellent cards for lots of games, and can run many modern AAA games just fine. The advances since those games have mainly been in features outside of raw rendering power, and diminishing returns means they haven't advanced nearly enough as used to be the case.
This is obviously a move to try to make the cards seem more obsolecent than they are, to try to move people away from using them. It's a shame, as it will generate a lot of unnecessary ewaste in a rather pointless mon
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the GTX1070 and GTX1080 are still excellent cards for lots of games, and can run many modern AAA games just fine. The advances since those games have mainly been in features outside of raw rendering power, and diminishing returns means they haven't advanced nearly enough as used to be the case.
This is obviously a move to try to make the cards seem more obsolecent than they are, to try to move people away from using them. It's a shame, as it will generate a lot of unnecessary ewaste in a rather pointless money grab. Especially seeing as NVidia makes so much more money on LLM chips anyway, meaning this is going to be marginal for them.
I agree 100% with you.
Thing is, games are "just" starting to require mandatory Ray Tracing hardware. The two most recent examples are indiana jones and the great circle, and Doom The dark Ages. As more and more games will need such HW, the GTX1xxx and below will be left behind. A minimum of RTX2xxx it is then.
Also, no DLSS is a hard pill to swallow, even if Intel and AMD saved our bacon... And, to top it off, 8GB VRAM is the bare minium nowadays, anything less, and one is royally screwed.
Having said that, a
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End of support? For what? Glad I just built my NAS with Linux, you don't need a "NAS Solution" to use mdadm and samba...
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End of support? For what? Glad I just built my NAS with Linux, you don't need a "NAS Solution" to use mdadm and samba...
Perhaps you did not read this part of what I wrote:
(though a VM with spenology or some FOSS NAS system on the same desktop may do the trick)
I know Linux or FreeBSD will do the trick. I started using FreeBSD in '95 and Linux in '96 for my uni thesis. I aslo used Linux as a sysadmin in telco. Then became an Openstack telco trainer...
But, when I arrive home, I do not want to deal with 'Moar IT' , I just want to get on my machine and run my games from my iSCSI partition with as minimum fuss as possible, or go to the Living room and watch a movie streaming from my NAS no problem, ditto for my music
Raja Koduri's revenge (Score:2)
Poor Volta
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/c... [reddit.com]
But ... (Score:4, Funny)
I was still saving up for a 980.