Nvidia has pointed out that the support of the architectures of the Graphic Processing Units (GPU) Maxwell, Pascal and Volta “is considered complete in terms of functions” and that “will” freeze “its support of ‘software’ in a next version of Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).
The company has indicated this discontinuation in CUDA 12.8, the repository of libraries, tools, compilers and application programming interfaces, which allow programmers to use programming language to encode algorithms in brand GPUS.
In this document has indicated what are obsolete or discarded functions, among which are “Disuse architectures“, as are Maxwell, Pascal and Volta. About them, he indicated that his support” is considered complete in terms of functions “that” will frozen “in a next version of CUDA.
The first of these architectures, Nvidia Maxwell, covers the GPU GeForce from the old GTX 700 series to the GTX 1000 series, launched in 2016. Nvidia Pascal, meanwhile, is the one that supports the GTX 10 series, while Volta He launched with the titan graphics card, as Videocardz remembers.
By “freezing” the architecture support for these GPUS, Nvidia will not eliminate them from the CUDA Library, but will begin to gradually eliminate their support and they will stop receiving new features or updates published by the company, as Tom’s Hardware has stressed .