Nvidia is officially ending support for a number of its older graphics cards. After the release of its next major drive update, Nvidia will no longer support three GPU architectures, including some of Steam’s most used GPUs.
In a message on the company’s official developer forums, Nvidia confirmed that driver update 580 will mark the end of support for the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures. For the average PC enthusiast, that means any Nvidia GeForce GTX 700 (Maxwell), GTX 900 (Maxwell), and GTX 10 (Pascal) series cards will no longer get updates. In addition to those cards, the Nvidia TITAN V, which is based on the Volta architecture, will also no longer receive updates.
“The release 580 series will be the last to support GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures,” Nvidia said while not confirming when the update will launch.
While it’s common for graphics card producers to end support for their older products, especially those a decade old, the end of support for the hardware may turn a few heads. Though not used by many, two of the soon-to-be-unsupported cards still falls in Steam’s top 20 most-used graphics cards.
According to the latest Steam Hardware Survey from May 2025, the GeForce GTX 1060 is used in 2.24% of all member PCs while the GTX 1050 Ti is used in 1.73%. Although it doesn’t sound like much, when the top card—Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060—is at 4.73% of users, it’s not an insignificant amount.
Recent numbers suggest that Steam has 132 million monthly active users. If we go based on that with loose numbers and assume every Steam user filled out the latest hardware survey, that means that roughly 2.96 million people still use a GTX 1060 while another 2.28 million user the 1050 Ti. Obviously, the actual numbers aren’t that high, but it gives a good idea as to just how many players remain on older hardware for their PC gaming.
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