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NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver

Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the 'Blackwell' GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch.

This will leave those still using Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs to use whatever ends up being the new legacy branch and/or switching to the open-source Nouveau driver stack to mixed results. Dropping the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta support will also be beneficial to the NVIDIA driver development since it's for the RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs where there is the GPU System Processor (GSP). Separately, yesterday's NVIDIA CUDA update also rolled out the first public R570 Linux driver build...

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