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. […]
That’s completely stupid at this point. But there’s a reason here. We’re paying the price of GCN being basically the same architecture from the very first HD 7000s, which came out in 2012. The only changes we see are from the first generation GCN to the second, and also from Polaris to Vega. Polaris is basically the same refined arch as the 200 series, except less power hungry. I didn’t understand why they previously dropped support for up to GCN 3, when in fact GCN 3 and GCN 4 are on par feature wise, and the r9 390x just beats the 480, let alone the Radeon fury series with HBM memory!
Depends massively on the game and VRAM used. 390X / 580 / Fury non X trade blows depending on game.
Yeah if VRAM usage goes beyond 4gigs then 390X and 8gb variants of 480 and 580/590 pulls ahead.
AMD must concentrate on making a good mid range product, just like the 7770, the r9 270/280, Rx 480 and Rx 5700 XT.
Of course flagships are cool and all, but who bought the fury x, r9 295x2, Vega 64 LC and Radeon VII brand new?