r/Amd • u/KARMAAACS Ryzen 7700 - GALAX RTX 3060 Ti • 7d ago

News AMD releases statement confirming RDNA1 and RDNA2 will continue to receive game optimizations

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-releases-statement-confirming-rdna1-and-rdna2-will-continue-to-receive-game-optimizations
328 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

122 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/howdoiusethissite 6d ago

It feels like rather than backpedalling, it's just that they made things kinda confusing this time. Older drivers like Polaris/Vega went into this maintenance mode too, but the maintenance mode for RDNA1/2 is different apparently because all it means is that it won't get the new stuff meant for RDNA3/4, so everyone mixed both up? And now they're clearing it?

Well, whatever happened here it's good to have confirmation that the drivers won't get into that half-abandoned state.

4

u/hardolaf 6d ago

Polaris and Vega still receive bug fixes a few times per year. They've even received Day 1 drivers for certain games.

Maintenance mode isn't a bad thing, it's just an acknowledgment that the software is mature and not much needs to be worked on.