AMD

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.

fuck me in particular

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

Whelp it was a good run. Off to the mining fields you…

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

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

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!

What a joke. Meanwhile nvidia still supports gtx900 cards.

Amernime Zone says Hello.

*shows a Radeon VII in the picture 🤦

Legit the sexiest card ever made.

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

AMD confirms is not a software company

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.

Where the fine wine went?

What about going backwards?

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).

Why does AMD always cut support so early? My 1060ti on my laptop still gets monthly drivers.

The RX 570 - 590 are not bad cards, they can still run most games on medium/high at 60fps, just no ray tracing. I played Doom Eternal on an RX 590 about 6 months ago and it was getting over 100fps.

I find it wasteful to cut support for cards like these so soon, a lot of people can still use them.

On Windows. on Linux these cards will be supported for another decade at least.