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 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.