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AMD Begins Polaris and Vega GPU Retirement Process, Reduces Ongoing Driver Support (www.anandtech.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.