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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by ColonelPhantom on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:10PM (#39347408)
CUDA dropped Tesla (from 2006!) only as of 7.0, which seems to have released around 2015. Fermi support lasted from 2010 until 2017, giving it a solid 7 years still. Kepler support was dropped around 2020, and the first cards were released in 2012.

As such Fermi seems to be the shortest supported architecture, and it was around for 7 years. GCN4 (Polaris) was introduced in 2016, and seems to have been officially dropped around 2021, just 5 years in. While you could still get it working with various workarounds, I don't see the evidence of Nvidia being even remotely as hasty as AMD with removing support, even for early architectures like Tesla and Fermi.

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Re:AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: I... by hedgehog on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:39PM (#39347791)
On top of this some Kepler support (for K80s etc) is still maintained in CUDA 11 which was last updated late 2022, and libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow still support CUDA 11.8 out of the box.
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