Read more.Users of these older OSes will continue to get critical security updates until September 2024.
Read more.Users of these older OSes will continue to get critical security updates until September 2024.
Nice typo there - Kepler cards were initially launched in March 2021
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
mtyson (14-06-2021)
This one-two punch will hit my "vintage" gaming rig. It has a GTX750, which I didn't realise, along with the 750TI, are the only 700 series GPUs that aren't Kepler. They're Maxwell, so it would still get driver support...
except that it won't for me, since it's on a build that has various older Windows installs, the newest being Win 64bit. Not surprised considering how old the build and the card is (build is 13, GPU is 8).
Normally I wouldn't have a problem with this announcement, but this stings as the GT 710 is still being sold with new models being made... with 3 years of software support in security fixes only. In the current climate that makes this decision look pretty rubbish.
3 years of security patches for a brand new card is poor - especially as the 710 buyer is less likely to upgrade regularly
We need the 1010 replacement already
it depends on the situation. When I upgraded to a new graphics card I gave my old one to my parents to use. the card was working correctly however when windows 10 upgraded frequent BSOD occurred and instead of the driver being updated AMD decided to EOL the card!. This was a few years ago now so I can't remember which card it was. I ended up locating an older nvidia card which worked correctly. This is one of the reasons the last graphics card I got was NVidia.
ironically in this situation you get more support for a £36 graphics card than a Typical £1000 smartphone.
How many critical security flaws are likely to both exist and be actively exploited at that point? Critical fixes are being produced until summer 2024, at which point will the target group of 2012 era chips be in wide enough use to make exploits worthwhile even if they can be done?
I don't think any of this will matter - the cards will still work fine. Where you might have a problem is when windows 11 hits.
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