Nvidia Deprecating Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta: How to stay on current driver for old hardware and move to new drivers for newer

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Greetings. Nvidia is deprecating/has deprecated Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta support in their Game Ready drivers. As an example, I have not been getting Nvidia updates on my laptop with Pascal-era GTX 1070 within Windows since October. Anyways, what is the preferred method for me to keep the latest drivers that support Pascal on my laptop? Also, for my desktop that has RTX, how do I keep it on the latest train?

  1. I see there are G07 drivers, however I do not see an equivalent G07 for every G06 I am currently using. So, I am unsure if G07 is ready and/or how to switch to it. If it is ready, how do I switch to them?
  2. Is G07 meant to address this or is it addressing something else? It is referred to as open which makes me wonder.
  3. Do I use zypper to freeze updates on the G06 packages I am currently using on my laptop?

Thank you for any guidance on this topic. I apologize if I missed answers to this in other threads; I couldn’t find them.

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@iqgrande G06 as in the 580 series will remain in play for awhile, G07 as in the 590 series is for Turing or better…

No need to do anything, there will likely be updates for the G06.

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As Malcolm already stated, nothing to be done with “deprecated” chips.
With newer ones you may have to manually install the G07 driver once it is ready for general use; at the moment user-space packages are not readily available, see for instance bug 1254887#c1.
The 590 series (AKA G07) kernel drivers are “open source” like there are 580 series open source drivers ( check for instance nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default ), but AFAIK there will be no G07 “proprietary” kernel driver for the newer chips.

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Nvidia support till October 2028.