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Nvidia has recently announced the end of of support for the GTX 1000 line, including the seemingly popular GTX 1080. So unless you want to switch to nouveau, you cannot use them anymore.
This is all I really know about the topic though, I'm an AMD GPU user myself.
Why do they need to keep 'supporting' it?
Are you saying that newer driver versions are literally going to stop the card from working?
Yes.
Is there anything stopping people from still using their GPUs with the older drivers?
How is this even remotely relevant to the question posted?
They pulled support for a GPU still widely used. If you buy an NVIDIA GPU today you will most likely face the same problem a few years down the line.
That gpu generation is few moths shy of being 10 years old so it's unlikely 50 series would end support in a few years.
My secondary PC has a GPU in it that is more than 16 years old. Works as if it was brand new. I'd be pretty pissed if the support for any part of that PC just ended for no other reason that a billion dollar company trying to safe a few bucks 🤷
True that. That's why I originally chose amd components for this computer. They'll be supported until the sun explodes (give or take).