The end of the road is nearing for a range of aging Nvidia graphics cards, as support for several architectures was marked as feature-complete in the latest release of its CUDA runtime this month.
“Architecture support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release,” the chipmaker said in its CUDA 12.8 release notes.
The decision is likely to impact datacenter operators and scientific institutions still relying on the older models. The youngest of these architectures is almost eight years old, while the eldest will celebrate its 11th birthday this year. They grow up so fast.
The good news for anyone still rocking one of these aging cards, which…