At least for now, the Control Panel will continue to be installed for users of RTX Pro, RTX, and Quadro GPUs using Nvidia’s workstation drivers, since Nvidia hasn’t migrated all of the relevant professional features from the Control Panel to the Nvidia app.
As best as I can tell from Reddit and Internet Archive sleuthing, the Nvidia Control Panel as it currently exists was introduced in February of 2006 in the ForceWare 83.60 driver package. The old GeForce 7 series was Nvidia’s latest and greatest at the time, but the Control Panel would have been available on cards as old
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