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NVIDIA has ended mainstream graphics driver support for Fermi-based GeForce GPUs: they will no longer receive Game Ready driver enhancements, performance optimizations, and bugfixes. The company is also following up on their promise from December about dropping mainstream driver support for 32-bit operating systems, though critical security updates will continue through January 2019.
In context, NVIDIA’s previous architecture retirement came in March 2014, when their D3D10 Tesla architecture GPUs were moved to legacy status after around 8 years of support. And with this week’s announcement, Fermi has received mainstream support for around the same amount of time, marking the beginning of the end for NVIDIA's first D3D11-class GPU architecture.
In context, NVIDIA’s previous architecture retirement came in March 2014, when their D3D10 Tesla architecture GPUs were moved to legacy status after around 8 years of support. And with this week’s announcement, Fermi has received mainstream support for around the same amount of time, marking the beginning of the end for NVIDIA's first D3D11-class GPU architecture.