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That’s fine by me. No one in my household uses Windows anyways (except for my bitch ass brother); thank goodness. On Linux, I’ll have many more years of support with a 500 series. Mom’s got a system running Linux with and RX 570. And I have an RX 580. We are very happy. The irony is that Mesa provides better drivers than AMD does for Windows.
So soon???
I hope the EU changes the rules that the vendors provides at least 10 years of support for their products or open source all the software, so others can still provide the support!
Wishfully thinking.
SCREW YOU SPACESHIP!
“The AMD Polaris and Vega graphics architectures are mature, stable and performant and don’t benefit as much from regular software tuning. Going forward, AMD is providing critical updates for Polaris- and Vega-based products via a separate driver package, including important security and functionality updates as available. The committed support is greater than for products AMD categorizes as legacy, and gamers can still enjoy their favorite games on Polaris and Vega-based products.”
Sounds like there will still be some driver updates for AAA titles if I had to guess.
meh it’s not like as if new drivers for these cards often changed much fps and game crashes -wise. And AMD drivers updates are usually just a 50:50 gamble between functioning and broken af hardware acceleration anyway.
Glad I decided to retire my 580 8GB in may, it was a workhorse and played almost every game aside from cyberpunk on max settings at 1080p, it’s a solid backup card for me I guess my 6800 XT is a solid successor.
pls don’t abandon my vega 64 lc
abandons it
GF’s rig still has VII in it. No please, just no…
What’s with all the nonsense drama from title commenters ? Those cards will still be supported thru a separate driver.
Having separate driver branches for different architectures is actually a great thing since they don’t have to worry that changes in the codebase for one architecture could introduce regressions or bugs in other one for example.
This should actually improve stability of both driver branches and benefit everybody.
If anything, it’s massively preferable to what they tried to do with the R9 Fury cards back in the day. Having a stable driver to lean on and then doing security updates is MASSIVELY preferable to releasing a driver package that’s completely unified that just so happens to be broken on a small set of GPUs.
I mention the Fury cards because anyone who owned them and used them on Windows throughout 2020 will tell you that the drivers were broken for them for a good 8 months. I bet money AMD does not want a repeat of that, so might as well set a stable driver in stone and give it security updates from there.
If I buy a used RX 580, would I still be able to download the driver for it?
Ofcourse. Drivers can always be downloaded, but you wont get newest versions with the latest fixes.
Amernime might be an option.
My 580 should be fine so long as I still have software support for my typical applications. I’ll upgrade eventually.
Might as well use Amernime in that case
Kind of a bittersweet day.
Polaris was a workhorse, it put in more miles than I think any of us could have expected, and while Vega didn’t sell like gangbusters, those of us who had one had a lot of fun playing around with it.
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Yep - Watercooled and custom bios stuff running beyond 1680Mhz. Too bad it lacked proper memory bandwidth. Card would have bin a blast.
Laughs in Linux
Linux is free if you time has no value.
Only if u use Linux with a Nivea GPU :>
I loved my vega 64, i even replaced thermal pads and paste about 2 years ago but it still had overheating issues with the reference design Cooler. But i couldn’t ask for a better 6-year investment.