AMD

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!

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.

my 2 previous cards I was forced to upgrade due to legacy drivers (Terrascale 2 and GCN1) as result some games were crashing with no hope for fixes;;; I hope they keep with major bugfixes for a little while :( I don't care about feature parity or the same schedule, just major bugs and some level of optimization for newer games

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

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 I buy a used RX 580, would I still be able to download the driver for it?

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.

o7

Laughs in Linux

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.

Man, I JUST got an RX 6700 XT. I guess it was right on schedule. I bought it used for a 125 bucks on November 10 2018! 5 years ago tomorrow! Thank you little Aorus RX 580 4GB, you did great.

I retired my Vega 64 like 4 months ago and I miss it, still a decent card, it was pulling average 50 fps on CP2077 with all settings maxed out at 1080p.

I really wish we had more consumer cards with HBM-based VRAM, 'cause latency wise + throughput, that thing slays hard.

Ah yes, 'fine wine'...

More like dry wine.

www.amernimezone.com/#download

:(

AMD was doing nothing for Polaris in years anyway

But.. I'm still using my vega 56 to play new games :(