Nvidia issues new “GeForce Security Update” for its Maxwell and Pascal GPUs
Nvidia releases “GeForce Security Update” for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
Last year, Nvidia ended its “Game Ready” driver support for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta series GPUs. This week, Nvidia released a new “GeForce Security Update” for its classic gaming GPUs, including the Pascal GTX 1080 Ti. This is Nvidia’s GeForce Security Driver 582.66 WHQL.
These new drivers are for Windows 10 and Windows 11 PC users and only support Nvidia Maxwell, Pascal and Volta series GPUs. These GPUs are no longer supported by Nvidia’s mainstream “Game Ready” GPU drivers.
NVIDIA has released a software security update display driver for Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal-series GeForce GPUs which are no longer supported by Game Ready Drivers. This update addresses multiple issues that may lead to security impacts.
– Nvidia
Sadly, Nvidia’s release notes for this driver do not list the issues it addresses. Based on Nvidia’s release notes for this driver, Nvidia did not implement any general bug fixes or other fixes with this new driver release. All “Open Issues” remain as part of these drivers. This makes sense, as this driver focuses exclusively on security and Nvidia is not giving its older GPUs full driver support.
Below are the GPUs that are supported by Nvidia’s new GeForce Security Update. Note that users of newer Nvidia GPUs should update to Nvidia’s newest mainstream GPU drivers.
GeForce 10 Series
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030, GeForce GT 1010
GeForce 900 Series
GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950
GeForce 700 Series
GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745
NVIDIA TITAN Series
NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), GeForce GTX TITAN X
– GeForce Security Update Driver 582.66 – Supported GPUs
Nvidia’s new GeForce Security Update Driver 582.66 is available to download here.
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