- NVIDIA has announced that support for GPUs of the GTX 10 series ends in October 2025
- After that, these graphics cards, including GTX 1060, will only get security solutions
- He also announced that Windows 10 support will be executed until October 2026, reflecting the Microsoft Extended Support Program for the operating system
Nvidia has launched a new graphics controller and announced that she will soon draw the curtain on the GPU support of the GeForce GTX 10 series, as well as the GTX 900 models, and the end for Windows 10 players will continue a year later.
As Ars Technica highlighted, the launch notes for the controller version 580.88 came with the revelation that graphics cards based on the Maxwell and Pascal architecture, which means that GTX 900 and 10 series products will witness their final controller launch in October 2025.
After that, only quarterly security updates will obtain to stop them against vulnerabilities, and that’s all. Security patches will end in October 2028 for these products as well.
If October 2025 sounds a bell, it is because it is also the month that Microsoft sets aside the support for Windows 10, and that is also wrapped in this ads of Nvidia.
Team Green said that the driver support ready for the game for Windows 10 to October 2026 is extending to reflect the extended support that Microsoft offers consumers that they wish to continue with the operating system, and not yet update to Windows 11. O, in fact, people who may not be able to update the new operating system, because their PC does not meet the hardware requirements.
This movement is not surprising, since Nvidia already told us at the beginning of July that the V580 drivers would be the last to support Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards, we simply did not know exactly when the cut was approaching, and now we do it.
If you are affected, what exactly does this mean?
As stated, there are two categories of PC players to whom this affects: those with GTX 10 model GPU, such as the GTX 1060 and those that run Windows 10. In addition, some people will be in both camps, without a doubt, perhaps enough.
GTX 10 series graphics cards remain reasonably popular in some cases (while GTX 900 products have decreased to nothing). In fact, the GTX 1060 is actually the twelfth GPU most popular according to the latest Steam hardware survey, and once it reigned supreme, so it is still seeing a lot of use.
After October 2025, this GPU, along with other offers of 10 series such as 1070 and 1080, will only receive security updates. That means that they will still be sure to use, patching against any exploits in drivers that bad actors can find, but will not receive support for new games or characteristics.
Then, as time progresses, you will find that your reliable GTX 1060 becomes more Wonkking and less reliable with the new games, since its final version of the driver ages and generally becomes more erratic. Keep in mind that if you stay with old games, which were attended before the game support was frozen, you should be fine, at least in theory.
As for those of Windows 10, they will be good for another year. It will still have full driver support until October 2026, as noted, so it will be fine until then. Assuming to keep Windows 10 safe, of course, using the extended support offer of Microsoft, which is now free, with a slight capture.
However, after October 2026, you must update Windows 11, or you will not get new controllers, so there is no support for games or security patches, regardless of how new your NVIDIA GPU is.
At this point, it is really looking for a Windows 11 update, or a change to something completely different, unless Microsoft extends the Windows 10 support even more for consumers beyond 2026 (which seems unlikely, but it could happen). In which case, Nvidia could again reflect the movement with their own drivers, since this is what has happened here, but nothing is guaranteed in any way.
