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. […]
  • AltirixBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    was going to say thats a shame i hoped they would just drop specific driver changes for those older uarchs, such as not bothering with driver upgrades that are for new AAA games when the hardware regardless of optimization is not really going to run it. rather further driver upgrades are only for esports titles or mainstream use cases, where it matters more for this kind of hardware.

    after reading the source, imo it feels videocardz has ommitted parts to drive clicks by outrage.

    AMD’s support plans for Vega and Polaris, by contrast, still call for regular driver releases, albeit without major feature updates or performance optimizations. That means receiving bug fixes and other occasional updates as AMD sees fit to backport them to the older driver branch, but not the full scope of updates that AMD’s RDNA products are now receiving via their up-to-date mainline driver.

    https://www.anandtech.com/show/21126/amd-reduces-ongoing-driver-support-for-polaris-and-vega-gpus

    time will tell if amd does in fact stick to this support plan and it’s not moved into legacy in all but name.

    quite frankly i don’t care if my AMD APU laptop gets driver updates that improve performance in some 2023 AAA title so i get 10fps vs 5fps. but i do care if a new esports title comes out that the hardware can absolutely run on.

    ill continue to hope this is more of a Mainstream/Esports-only driver branch and not the latest and greatest driver branch. it would be nice if AMD is a bit more specific of what Polaris/Vega will and won’t get.