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Meanwhile AMD drops Vega drivers, and any other support for such an old CPU, and gets away with selling it.
What does Vega drivers have to do with these CPUs? Vega are GPUs.
AMD hasn’t dropped vega drivers though… they moved them to a legacy release cycle, which means they’ll get drivers for Windows 10/11 but at a much slower rate without new features. Adrenalin 23.11.1 is the latest Vega driver… Just checked the Ryzen 3 2200U is still on the latest driver…
What they do, do is reduce the rate of updates, EG if something breaks polaris in a driver update it might be a few months before those cards get on a new driver… in the grand scheme of things its a non issue for 99% of users.
Nobody is forced to buy this. If it didn’t sell they wouldn’t make it.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with selling it or people buying it, Zen still works, but it is wrong for AMD to sell something they drop support for. Also, not sure how well this would work for windows 11. Perhaps if 10 or linux.
Most accurate comment ever.
Yeah, if there’s a market for older CPUs they’re going to sell it.
I mean Intel still manufactured new original 386 chips until 2007 or so, more than 20 years after release. And who knows how long they still had stock for, if you asked them today with enough $$$ they might find some in a warehouse somewhere.
I beleive some of the early x86 stock was bought up by the space industry as well, along with powerpc and things like that. very large process nodes and simple as possible feature set are a simple way to increase resistance to radiation effects before shielding.
Would have been nice to see a newer entry level CPU than the 3000G.
That’s Mendocino, but they didn’t bring it to desktop market and probably will not.
Aka me
Bought these for cheap office pcs 2 yrs ago. Does its job.
There’s always a market for a sub $50 CPU. Office PC, Grandma’s HTPC, a starter computer for your kid, etc.
No shit, I am running a Win NT machine just for excel. Until this thing dies, I have no reason to replace it whatsoever. Too bad CRT went kaput years ago.
I built a PC for my wife’s beauty salon with the remains of my old PCs. i7 980 CPU, Asus Sabertooth X58 MB, 16GB kingston DDR3 1666Mhz, Kingston 500GB SSD, AMD HD7870… I could have used a RX 570 8Gb but for what she uses it, it would be a waste.
Appliance hardware, kiosks, industrial computers, etc. Equipment we buy at work, a lot of times it comes with older processors.
Yep, that too! There is an enormous amount of lower end hardware used in such kinds of equipment.
Too bad they’re so expensive in Australia, A$159 here.
It’s only A$189 for a 5600G, I’d be all over one of these for AUD$79 (or less!).
Good thing they ditched AM3-era heatsink for modern Wraith Stealth cooler. There’s still a market for everyday desktop PC for home and office use.
However, it still needs to be paired with between old A320 to X470 mobos only. A520 and above mobos are unsupported.
There would never be enough throughput for silicon if we only used the latest nodes. These factories can operate for decades
Why does the Athlon series get all of the cool looking boxes? Lmao.
14nm CPUs go hard
These and other products (like Zen+ embedded) likely fulfill AMD’s (contractual) wafer-buy obligations to GloFo until 2025. Though GloFo is seeing pretty high demand on 12/14nm for products that don’t really need leading-edge silicon. Trailing-edge is just fine and much more affordable.
Back in 2019 i build a computer with athlon ge 200. Was using it until i bought 1600 a couole momths after. Sure, athlon was not a powerhouse, however, it was a good cpu for basic home computer. And the fact it played a lot of older games without problems was nuts.
And there’s people that claim otherwise.
The box for this CPU unironically goes hard
It honestly looks like the Starfield 7800X3D box at a glance
There aren’t a lot of places AMD can use 14nm anymore. They’re locked into a wafer supply agreement with GlobalFoundries until 2025 and GF abandoned development on their sub-14/12nm nodes.
Since AMD is moving even IO dies to more advanced nodes, they’re running out of places where they can use GlobalFoundries.