By According to The Full Nerd podcast, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 is regarded as the greatest graphics card of all time due to its exceptional value, performance, and improvements over its predecessors. However, its time may be coming to an end. The last major GTX cards may be coming to an end as Nvidia is discontinuing support for Unix graphics for the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta families of GPUs.
It makes sense if you’re a little perplexed. The fact that most gamers use Windows shouldn’t have anything to do with Unix support, right? According to VideoCardz, Nvidia regrettably tends to discontinue support for graphics card architecture as soon as it ceases Unix development. Therefore, regardless of the operating system you’re running, the GTX 700, 900, and 10-series graphics card driver package’s 580 release is most likely the last one.
Given that they are less expensive cards built on the same Turing architecture as the original RTX 20 series, the slightly younger GTX 16 series (1630, 1650, 1650 Super, 1660, 1660 Ti, and 1660 Super), which began to appear on the market in 2019, may last a little while longer. Furthermore, older GPUs (made between 2014 and 2017) won’t gain improvements for new games, so it’s not like they will suddenly stop working if they don’t have game-ready drivers.
However, given the soaring costs of GPUs, it would undoubtedly mark the end of an era and a difficult push for users who are still using these cards to upgrade.
