AMD Polaris and Vega GPUs only to receive critical updates AMD is sunsetting its Polaris and Vega support on Windows. The company will only provide critical security patches.  It has been long speculated that AMD has already abandoned the Vega and Polaris architectures, but the company has now confirmed that this is indeed the case. […]
    • DHJudas@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      meanwhile they only receive mostly driver version changes… but nvidia has LONG since stopped caring about those gpus. It’s been shown over and over and over again how nvidia’s drivers have a tendency to regress on 1 and 2 generation old and older gpus.

      It’s also a fact that amd/ati has provided most often the longest running support for hardware driver wise. Plus vega/polaris aren’t dead yet, they are receiving driver updates still just not as often. They haven’t been moved to legacy yet.

  • CJM_cola_cole@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Sorta BS that my Radeon VII card is losing support when it came out the same year as those cards and outperformed them 🙃

  • Sky90po@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not that we need their SUPPORT in Linix and BSD. But open source driver is mostly developed by community anyway. So they can do as they please, i also am never forget them that they refused to port Radeon Software to Linux… For years people wanted it but no. And they blamed Linux as not suitable for task. My next GPU is Nvidia. Going back to roots. Maybe Intel.

  • AMD_Fanboy1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    *shows a Radeon VII in the picture 🤦

    Legit the sexiest card ever made.

    Reference Vega 64 still going strong, games great at 1440.

  • Chronia82@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not thats its going to hit me, but kinda meh. The latest products using these architectures are sometimes not even released more than a few years ago. Let alone when they were last shipped, which is even closer. Driver support for something important as a GPU should last at least 5 years imho from the moment chips using the architecture were last shipped by AMD (not last sold in retail, as thats not something AMD can control).

  • jojlo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    One of my biggest annoyances is AMD removes features and functionality over time.

  • Coldy-N@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I do wonder what the impact will be on all the Vega integrated graphics. Lots of laptop cpus depend on that.

  • SRFoxtrot341_V2@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    RX 580 and GTX 1060 has been around for a very long time, to the point I think right now is a very good time for an upgrade.

  • AccroG33K@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That’s completely stupid at this point. But there’s a reason here. We’re paying the price of GCN being basically the same architecture from the very first HD 7000s, which came out in 2012. The only changes we see are from the first generation GCN to the second, and also from Polaris to Vega. Polaris is basically the same refined arch as the 200 series, except less power hungry. I didn’t understand why they previously dropped support for up to GCN 3, when in fact GCN 3 and GCN 4 are on par feature wise, and the r9 390x just beats the 480, let alone the Radeon fury series with HBM memory!

    • Cryio@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Depends massively on the game and VRAM used. 390X / 580 / Fury non X trade blows depending on game.