Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the “Blackwell” GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch.

Four years ago with the NVIDIA 470 series was the legacy branch for GeForce GTX 600 / 700 Kepler series and now as we embark on the NVIDIA 570 driver series, it looks like it could end up being the legacy branch for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations of GPUs. NVIDIA Maxwell was introduced 11 years ago with the GeForce GTX 750 series and followed by the GTX 900 series. Pascal came out in 2016 with the GeForce GTX 1000 series. Volta came out in 2017 for the Tesla V100 / DGX-1 and Tita