Feels like yesterday that Radeon VII shroud came out, where does teh time go
I wanted that Vega 64 LE steelboi sooo much. Never got the chance.
It’s not unexpected that these get slower releases. It is a completely different issue if these get discontinued, as products with GCN graphics have recently launched.
But oh boy, AMD really needs to gear up their software team. They can’t even manage how to properly launch Adrenalin.
But oh boy, AMD really needs to gear up their software team. They can’t even manage how to properly launch Adrenalin anymore.
The guy in your link’s issue went away when he reset Windows, so it could have been a Windows issue. Probably not the best example to use.
I can understand polaris as their product is quite old but they were still selling those chips back in 2019, thats 4+ yrs only.
Vega chips? They are in laptop APU as new as 7000 series, these chips are still selling when we are going into 2024. A lot Laptop get 3yrs of warranty, some can even extend to 5yrs. Thats year 2029, AMD need to keep vega supported until year 2029.
otherwise I wont consider buying any AMD product that carries a Radeon brand.
Nvidia still has Maxwell (2013) still ‘supported’ in the main driver releases (some generational specific bugs don’t get fixed). AMD has a pattern now of just dropping multiple generations of support from their driver package, even if the cards are perfectly usable in some instances.
They aren’t dropping support, they are ‘only’ dropping the priority for those.
Should they be doing this? No. Are they dropping support? Also no.
I highly doubt AMD are going to keep vega with critical security support until 2029. Vega is still a 2024 product, not giving them at least 5 yrs support is very bad.
If AMD dont wanna support architecture for so long, may be they should have start using RDNA iGPU back in 5000 series, and stop selling any vega APU in 2020 onward.
Vega is a 2024 product? They will be selling them next year?
Also, they might support it, you don’t know yet. Let’s criticise AMD for what they are doing, not for what they might do.
This is my main issue with AMD GPUs, the driver support is short. The GTX 970 (Released in 2014) is still getting regular Driver updates 9 years after release whereas the RX 590 (Released 2018!) is on the brink of losing drivers, not to mention Ryzen APUs released in 2023! This just seems ridiculous compared to Nvidia
I mean sure Nvidia may say they support a gtx970 but good luck running today’s games on it with 3.5GB of VRAM.
AMD not being dogshit at software challenge (impossible)
Some people are reacting like they’re stopping support for these GPUs altogether. They’re putting Vega/Polaris on a slower update track, not completely stopping driver support.
I’d imagine that this saves them time when releasing new driver versions by reducing the number of GPUs to validate with every new release, since many of the newer driver features may not apply to the older GPUs anyway. On the flip side, they now have 2 driver packages to maintain instead of just one.
That said, it not good that they’re including Vega in this, given that those are still being sold, and as others have mentioned still being released until very recently.
No real skin off my nose, Polaris had a good run and she’s getting replaced next year.