Nvidia's release notes for CUDA 12.8 revealed that Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs will likely transition to the legacy driver branch. The document states that "architecture support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release."
This move represents the beginning of the end for all remaining GTX-era Nvidia architectures. While CUDA support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta remains, the legacy GPUs will not receive any new features Nvidia might provide in the future. It's crucial to highlight that this has nothing to do with GeForce gaming driver support. In fact, Maxwell and Pascal continue to be on the support list for the GeForce RTX series driver, unlike Kepler. Nvidia didn't detail whether or when it'll drop support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs for the gaming driver.
