NVIDIA GPU Consumer Rankine (NV3x) End of Life Date
NVIDIA GPU Consumer Rankine (NV3x) end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
NVIDIA GPU consumer-rankine was released on January 27, 2003 and support ended on June 23, 2008 — a supported lifespan of 5 years and 5 months, shorter than the 11 years and 6 months median for NVIDIA GPU releases. It has been without security patches for 18 years and 2 months. 30 newer NVIDIA GPU releases have shipped since.
| Version | Latest | EOL Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Fahrenheit (NVx) | — | Mar 11, 2005 | EOL |
| Consumer Celsius (NV1x) | — | Apr 14, 2005 | EOL |
| Consumer Kelvin (NV1x, NV2x) | — | Nov 2, 2006 | EOL |
| → Consumer Rankine (NV3x) | — | Jun 23, 2008 | EOL |
| Consumer Curie (NV4x, G7x) | — | Feb 24, 2015 | EOL |
| Consumer Tesla (Cxx, G8x, G9x, GT2xx, ION) | — | Dec 14, 2016 | EOL |
| Consumer Fermi (GF1xx)* | — | Mar 10, 2018 | EOL |
| Professional Fermi (GF1xx)** | — | Dec 31, 2022 | EOL |
What does NVIDIA GPU Consumer Rankine (NV3x) end of life mean?
When NVIDIA GPU Consumer Rankine (NV3x) reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running NVIDIA GPU Consumer Rankine (NV3x) past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
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