According to Steam's latest hardware survey, the first Kepler GPU to appear on their Video Card Description section is the GT 730, which accounts for just 0.47% of all Steam users right now. While it's always a shame when support for old hardware gets discontinued, the move (hopefully) shouldn't affect too many people. As such, it's likely these three cards will continue to receive Game Ready drivers for a little bit longer, until Nvidia axes support for their Maxwell GPUs as well, that is. The GTX 750, GTX 750 Ti and GTX 745 are all absent, and that's because these cards technically belong to Nvidia's Maxwell family, despite sharing the same 700-series name. Some of the eagle-eyed among you will notice that not all GTX 700 cards are actually present in this list.

Moving forward, Nvidia's software QA team will be focusing on hardware that supports newer technologies.'

Since then, gaming technology has evolved dramatically with technologies like DirectX 12 Ultimate and Nvidia DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling). In a new FAQ page on Nvidia's Support site, the reason they've given for ending Kepler support is as follows: 'Kepler-based desktop GPUs initially launched in March of 2012. Here's a full list of the affected Nvidia Kepler GPUs:

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