Nothing you guys haven’t already noticed with the last couple of Adrenaline driver releases for Windows. But AMD has finally officially commented on the matter (and this has yet to be posted on their website).
Polaris and Vega aren’t legacy - AMD isn’t pulling ongoing driver support entirely - but they’re now in an “extended” support phase. Meaning they’ll mainly get bug fixes and irregular “functionality updates” that AMD decides to backport from their mainline (now RDNA-only) driver branch. AMD has not told me how long they intend this extended support period to last.
That was what they said when they released Crimson ReLive in 2015 and put Terrascale into extended support with promised less frequent but once a year updates. I got one super buggy driver that was basically unusable and then nothing.
That was what they said when they released Crimson ReLive in 2015 and put Terrascale into extended support with promised less frequent but once a year updates.
Terrascale was made legacy in 2015, there was no promised less frequent driver updates.
These products have been moved to a legacy support model and no additional driver releases are planned. This change enables us to dedicate valuable engineering resources to developing new features and enhancements for graphics products based on the GCN Architecture.
Glad their latest driver also supports Polaris. Sounds like who knows when the next will be.
" AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.11.1 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.
Radeon™ VII
Radeon™ RX Vega Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo
Radeon™ RX 500 / Radeon 500X Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 400 Series Graphics"
Nothing you guys haven’t already noticed with the last couple of Adrenaline driver releases for Windows. But AMD has finally officially commented on the matter (and this has yet to be posted on their website).
Polaris and Vega aren’t legacy - AMD isn’t pulling ongoing driver support entirely - but they’re now in an “extended” support phase. Meaning they’ll mainly get bug fixes and irregular “functionality updates” that AMD decides to backport from their mainline (now RDNA-only) driver branch. AMD has not told me how long they intend this extended support period to last.
That was what they said when they released Crimson ReLive in 2015 and put Terrascale into extended support with promised less frequent but once a year updates. I got one super buggy driver that was basically unusable and then nothing.
Terrascale was made legacy in 2015, there was no promised less frequent driver updates.
https://www.legitreviews.com/amd-ends-driver-support-for-radeon-hd-8000-7000-6000-and-5000-series-cards_175672
https://www.techspot.com/news/62913-amd-ends-driver-support-hd-5000-6000-series.html
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9815/amd-moves-pre-gcn-gpus-to-legacy
in 2015 they have selling 5000 series apu with terascale gpu. Already legacy.
Glad their latest driver also supports Polaris. Sounds like who knows when the next will be.
" AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.11.1 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.
Radeon™ VII
Radeon™ RX Vega Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo
Radeon™ RX 500 / Radeon 500X Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 400 Series Graphics"