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Meanwhile, the 900 series, which was released 9 years ago, is still receiving the latest driver support from Nvidia.
Why is AMD like this?
Shh AMD fanboys don't want to face reality. They only want to hear about FineWine.
Remember Fury and VII? Aged like milk both of them.
As a 5700xt user I know im next probably late next year
Not much per-game optimizations need to be done on those architectures at this point. Polaris is 7½ years old, Vega is 6 years old. We've had 3 new GPU generations after Vega. It's clear AMD will prioritize RDNA moving forward, like how it prioritized GCN over Terascale after a while.
Sad to hear that, but it's understandable. GCN is quite an old architecture. Nevertheless, I'm planning to keep my Vega56 for another year or two. For 1080p gaming it's absolutely fine.
wow, never caught this before but did AMD really try to sneak a lower tier die as a flagship product? 7nm or no, that die is only like 2/3rds the size of its predecessor... that's like a whole product tier lower.
Is this even ethical business practice?
In my country brand new RX 580s are still being sold and you have to also consider the fact that AMD still makes new APUs with Vega iGPUs, so how come they can discontinue game optimization updates for the Vega/Polaris series?
Well when the drivers support ends for my RX580, which is AMD's most popular graphics card on steam, I think I may take a good look at Intel ARC graphics cards or look at the equivalent AMD card providing it's priced right.
Radeon VII was released 02.2019, 4.5 years ago. That's too early to drop the support.
No it's not too early. 4.5 years in the GPU industry is comparable to 10-25 years in actual time.
There is zero justifiable reason to continue supporting such ancient hardware. I mean even Nvidia doesn't support Turing anymore, let alone Pascal lmao.
Nothing you guys haven't already noticed with the last couple of Adrenaline driver releases for Windows. But AMD has finally officially commented on the matter (and this has yet to be posted on their website).
Polaris and Vega aren't legacy - AMD isn't pulling ongoing driver support entirely - but they're now in an "extended" support phase. Meaning they'll mainly get bug fixes and irregular "functionality updates" that AMD decides to backport from their mainline (now RDNA-only) driver branch. AMD has not told me how long they intend this extended support period to last.
