Is nvidia 900 series dying?

[Konstantinos Koutse]

so i heard that after nvidia releases its pascal GPUs nvidia will stop optimizing drivers for the maxwell cards is it true? oh gosh i just bought a gtx 960 4gb and i feel like an idiot was it a mistake to buy so early? but also will nvidia stop supporting those cards now? after pascal?

 

[sizzling]

Utter rubbish, look at all the old cards they are still producing drivers for.

 

[Konstantinos Koutse]

great to know appreciate it but could nvidia be so greedy as to stop optimizing game drivers for the 900 series especially if directx12 is coming out?

 

[Sakkura]

They will still be supported, but performance may not be optimized as well for upcoming games. It won't get completely terrible though.

 

[mcnumpty23]

i wouldnt worry about it

yes pascal cards will be with us soon--but doesnt mean a pascal card that would have cost the same

as your gtx960 did will be with us soon

for the money your gtx960 was a good buy and will be fine for a few years to come

 

[Geekwad]

It takes Nvidia a couple of generations to stop paying as close attention to optimizing new software for their old hardware, so you have several years left. Dropping support outright (like Fermi not getting Vulkan support) take 5-6+ years to happen.