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A bit of a misleading title, considering that AMD officially stopped updating drivers for Vega GPUs which are still being sold in products today(!) based on Ryz
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
A bit of a misleading title, considering that AMD officially stopped updating drivers for Vega GPUs which are still being sold in products today(!) based on Ryzen 5000 APUs. They'll only see security updates.
So I have mixed feeling on AMDs update support periods. OSS drivers and community dev effort is a different thing from the manufacturer's own efforts and should be mentioned as such.
Edit: @downvoters, would you mind explaining please? Not that I care what you do, I'm just curious on your logic. Thanks
- mouse_ 3y agoI have to respect for AMD for at the very least following the standards they helped create, unlike Nvidia. That makes things like this possible.
- pdpi 3y agoThis is definitely something the OSS community deserves most of the praise for, but, AIUI, the overall quality of the radeon drivers is only possible because AMD has a pretty good history around giving the community the specs to work with, so they definitely deserve credit there.
- ho_schi 3y ago1. Doesn’t apply to Linux. 2. Probably also doesn’t apply to Windows[1][2]. Please correct me if I missed something. [1] https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/product-and-os-support-update-for-radeon-software-adrenalin-21-6/ba-p/477423 https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/product-and-os-support-u... [2] https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/product-and-os-support-update-for-radeon-software-adrenalin-21-6/ba-p/477423 https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/product-and-os-support-u...
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoYour links are from 2021. :-(
- ZekeSulastin 3y agoAMD split off Polaris and Vega drivers last September; official ROCm support ended earlier but afaik you can still run ROCm on Vega? Similarly worrisome for gamers is aging architectural features as devs catch up to hardware, i.e. mesh shaders in Alan Wake 2 supported in Turing+ and RDNA2+. https://www.anandtech.com/show/21126/amd-reduces-ongoing-driver-support-for-polaris-and-vega-gpus https://www.anandtech.com/show/21126/amd-reduces-ongoing-dri...
- ColonelPhantom 3y agoMy HD 7850 machine on Windows is currently on some legacy-branch "22.6.1" driver, over a year old. Even my RX 580 is on another legacy branch now, with most updates only being for RDNA cards. AMD's dropping of Polaris and Vega also applies to Linux, where the AMDVLK first-party driver stopped supporting them. ROCm also does not work anymore. Of course, nobody uses AMDVLK so it's not a huge loss (RADV is generally a lot better), but the loss of ROCm does suck.
- wakeupcall 3y ago> considering that AMD officially stopped updating drivers for Vega GPUs which are still being sold in products today(!) This happens waaaaaaay to often in hw/embedded :(. My experience in embedded is that usually you have two teams: lead "next-gen" product team, working from the prototype to the first shipping release where things start to barely work. This is then moved to "support" team, which will try to punch and kick things around with half the required knowledge until it's somewhat usable. But as soon as the product cycle shifts to new gen hw with a different codebase, you're out of luck. The dynamics in this are not so simple, but the net result is that you frequently end up with product still being produced/sold where you effectively only get tech support at best, without real fixes (hw/sw).
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWe're not talking about embedded here but Ryzen APUs for laptops still being sold.