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This is the last generation from Nvidia to have official support for Windows 7 and 8.x as the latest drivers available for this generation require Windows 10. [4] The GeForce 30 series began shipping on September 17, 2020.
Nvidia announced that after release of the 470 drivers, it would transition driver support for the Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems to legacy status and continue to provide critical security updates for these operating systems through September 2024.
In August 2019, Nvidia announced Minecraft RTX, an official Nvidia-developed patch for the game Minecraft adding real-time DXR ray tracing exclusively to the Windows 10 version of the game. The whole game is, in Nvidia's words, "refit" with path tracing , which dramatically affects the way light, reflections, and shadows work inside the engine.
On 15 August 2016, Microsoft announced that effective October 2016, all future patches to Windows 7 and 8.1 would become cumulative as with Windows 10. The ability to download and install individual updates would be removed as existing updates are transitioned to this model. [45] This has resulted in increasing download sizes of each monthly ...
On Windows and Linux there is the NVIDIA developed Vulkan driver which supports Vulkan 1.2 on Kepler cards [102] with no further updates planned after September 2021. [103] Maxwell and newer support Vulkan 1.3. [104] NVK, an experimental, open source Vulkan driver for Linux based on nouveau, was announced in October 2022. [105]
In computing, CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary [2] parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs.
Source code released upon request under the LGPL-3.0-or-later license with the release of the version 1.8.9. [149] Publicly available under the terms of the MIT license since 23 March 2013. [ 150 ] The source code for The White Chamber , a game using the engine, was released on 30 June 2008 under a non-free CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK license.