AMD Polaris and Vega GPUs only to receive critical updates AMD is sunsetting its Polaris and Vega support on Windows. The company will only provide critical security patches.  It has been long speculated that AMD has already abandoned the Vega and Polaris architectures, but the company has now confirmed that this is indeed the case. […]
  • sharpness1000@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Kinda annoying, I might have to stay on older drivers forever because the newest ones are extremely unstable when doing almost any tuning besides fan and power% on my vega 56.

    • Lemarr92@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah. On the new drivers my Vega 56 will just crash my system when anything other than the fans and power are changed. Sad outview.

    • psnipes773@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Do you have a reference blower-style Vega 56? I had a similar problem with my Vega 64. Sometimes it would even crash to a black screen with a <100% power limit. I ended up repasting it with PTM 7950 and not only did it let me crank the power limit to the max, but it made it so that with the right fan curve, it wouldn’t thermal throttle at all. Before it was thermal throttling even with the fan at 100%.

      Just something to consider. You can also flash the Vega 64 VBIOS to gain a little extra performance. They’re still pretty capable little cards, I kinda regret selling mine.

  • Mammoth_Clue_5871@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Meanwhile the AMD Linux GPU driver (written mostly by Valve employees) still happily supports these cards with no trouble. No reason to retire these cards other than greed.

    If this was nVidia there would be 50 AMD shills in here talking about anti-consumerism and price gouging and forcing people to buy new GPUs, but apparently AMD gets a pass.

    • imaginary_num6er@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Anyone who bought a laptop with a 5500H chip should be proud. Launched in June 2023, it’s GPU drivers are obsolete in less than 6 months of use.

    • BumderFromDownUnder@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I mean most of the comments here are criticising AMD for this exact thing so… no… they aren’t getting a pass.

      In fairness to AMD, this card was extremely low volume. They probably can’t afford to support a card for all 5 customers still using it.

    • Derp_duckins@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I invested in both AMD and nVidia stocks at the beginning of the year.

      Should come as no surprise that AMD is up $2 a share…nVidia is up $271 a share.

    • njsullyalex@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Nvidia still supports Maxwell, the 2014 GTX 750ti is still receiving the latest driver updates for new games from Nvidia.

      So AMD dropping support for 2016 GPUs surprises me a little.

      • speedfreek101@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You sure about that as GF Experience would only let me use/download 472.84 which is Dec 2021 for my GTX1070 when I did a fresh win10 install last month?

      • YakumoYamato@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        considering brand new freshly produced GT 710, 730, GTX 750 and GT 1030 are still selling well in… less developed country. It is understandable they are still giving driver updates for old GPU model.

        Older AMD model on the other hand…