The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti won't get any new CUDA features

With the release of CUDA 12.8, Nvidia is halting further development of driver features for the popular GTX 1080 Ti and the other remaining GeForce GTX 1000 series.

While its new CUDA drivers still officially support the Pascal architecture, on which the entire GTX 1000 series of graphics cards is based, no further improvements or new features will be added in the future.

The Maxwell and Volta architectures, which are direct predecessors to the RTX 2000 series, have also been placed in this so-called "legacy" status, as Nvidia labeled these architectures as "deprecated" in the CUDA 12.8 release notes. Although the GTX 1000 series is still compatible with CUDA 12.8, this clearly indicates that Nvidia's focus is shifting towards newer generations of graphics cards.

CUDA is Nvidia's parallel computing platform and programming model.

It allows developers to use the power of graphics cards for general computing and specific tasks such as machine learning, scientific computations, and video editing. Since no new features will be developed for these older architectures, users of these GeForce GPUs may miss out on future performance improvements or optimizations for CUDA-based applications.

Source - Notebookcheck 

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