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. […]
If this means more effort goes into closing the feature gap vs nvidia, then I think this is an excellent move.
If this means just more profit, and they will still half ass upscaling, then we have a problem.
For me this means jumping ship over to nvidia.
Bye RX 580.
RX 580 and GTX 1060 has been around for a very long time, to the point I think right now is a very good time for an upgrade.
Meanwhile the GTX 1060 has gotten driver updates and is still supported for the latest games, regardless of only having 6 GB VRAM.
Yes, but it’s still a really old card, i replaced my 1060 6gb by a 6700 10go because it was not sufficient enough for gaming, not enough power, not enough memory and even if FSR was a godsend, i was playing at 1080p medium at max.
Also, it was supported but games and drivers were not optimized for it and the new features were not compatible with it (but AMD features are working on my old nvidia cards!), so…
While I’m pretty sure AMD has issues with software development resource shortage, I’m still not sure this is a good idea at this point. They should have only dropped Polaris to 2nd tier support at this point, and maybe Vega next year or so.