Nvidia Intense: Current Windows 490 series current drivers such as the new 496.49 WHQL only support Windows 10 and 11 and Maxwell generation GeForce graphics cards. Meanwhile, this is not surprising, as Nvidia announced the move in June.
After GeForce 400/500, the 600 and 700 series (except for the Maxwell based 745, 750 and 750 Ti) and Windows versions 7, 8 and 8.1 are no longer supported as they are called Game Ready Driver. . This means there are no performance improvements, no new features or bug fixes. Just Important security vulnerabilities Nvidia still wants to fix it.
Nvidia justifies the fact that DirectX12 Ultimate and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) will focus on internal quality assurance in the first new operations. (Not Available) GeForce Graphics Cards on the RTX-2000 Series Master Ray Tracing Hardware via DirectX12 Ultimate and DLSS Tension Cores.
A total of 26 types of graphics cards have been removed. Since such official drivers 472.12 WHQL Are available, but that does not mean the end of PCs with such a graphics card. Existing installations and their drivers may continue to be used as usual.
However, anyone expecting performance improvements on newer games like Far Cry 6, Deathloop or New World will be disappointed.
Hello, Kepler!
With this move, the GeForce GTX 780 TI, Titan (Black) and Z, which were Nvidia’s forerunners until the successor generation GeForce 900 with the Maxwell motor in September 2014, will no longer be available. But even popular cards like GeForce GTX 760 are no longer supported.
The exception is the 700 GeForces, which are already at the forefront of Maxwell GPUs: the GeForce GTX 745, 750 and 750 Ti will continue to be provided with drivers for the time being. The full list is available in the Nvidia Support section All graphics cards affected Deposited.
AMD has already cut it, so the current Radeon software is only available for the Radeon 400 series and newer. Younger branches of the RX400, RX500 and RX Vega series will receive driver updates as usual. Completely modified RDNA configuration was used from RX-5000 graphics cards and RX 6000s master hardware ray tracing.
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