Mammoth_Clue_5871@alien.topBtoGadgets•AMD confirms Polaris and Vega architectures will only to receive critical updates going forward - VideoCardz.comEnglish
1·
11 months agoMeanwhile the AMD Linux GPU driver (written mostly by Valve employees) still happily supports these cards with no trouble. No reason to retire these cards other than greed.
If this was nVidia there would be 50 AMD shills in here talking about anti-consumerism and price gouging and forcing people to buy new GPUs, but apparently AMD gets a pass.
Generally speaking the only people still buying ‘sound cards’ are less tech savvy people.
You can usually get the exact same hardware (or better) cheaper if you search for a DAC instead. There are 1 or 2 edge case exceptions (ie Atmos/surround sound), but even in those cases there are other better cheaper options than anything with the ‘Creative’ brand name on it.
Pretty much all you are getting by paying more for Creative hardware is their audio driver. Which is of debatable quality.
I mean its better than the Realtek shit you get free on your motherboard I guess…