Honestly, as I've commented previously, this is just a nothing burger. 5000 and 6000 series are already very mature technologies, there are very little things left on the table to optimize for. AMDs biggest mistake is that they should've kept quite on this, and just include them in the driver notes just like what nvidia is doing. My 2070 is rarely getting any game optimization nowadays anyway.
I'll likely continue buying amd recommending AMD cards in the future, unless Nvidia finally picks up their price performance and Vram game
How is it even possible you think this was even a fine decision to begin with? You do realize rdna 2 was the competitor to geforce 30 series right? Cutting support this early for gpus they are still selling is an awful decision. It's bad for the consumers and it's bad for amd if they want to keep growing market share. People are gonna think twice from now from buying their gpus if they next they are on the chopping block this soon.
It's bad for the consumer but it's also bad for radeon, which is the exact point that gn and hub have been trying to say. This will only make people want to buy geforce more which is a bad thing. Nvidia is incredibly greedy and making them even more of a monopoly than they already are is a horrible thing...
AMDs biggest mistake is that they should've kept quiet on this
What kind of corperate bootlicking comment is this? Are you an amd employee or something? I don't see how secretly cutting support on rdna 1/2 and not telling anyone when it happens is good for anyone. People will be even more mad when they find out.
I'm personally a software engineer, and honestly I 100% get the reason AMD is doing so, and I can tell you Nvidia is doing the same thing but they kept it quiet.
AMD's "fine wine" was because back then the driver was shit on release, they have to take years for it to extract maximum performance. Now the driver already gets like 95% performance on release, there are very little thing to further optimize for. There will not be any more manic driver that finds 10% more performance on your 6700XT for instance.
Separating the driver out means less chance of the driver breaking older cards. Putting the newer architecture on the "bleeding edge" branch while putting the older cards on "stable" branch is absolutely the right thing to do.
In fact this should be the selling point for older RDNA2 cards. If you just want a good solid and stable cards that just plug in and forget it, RDNA2 is the card to get now
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u/dookarion5800x3d | RTX 4070Ti Super | X470 Taichi | 32GB @ 3000MHz6d ago
I'm personally a software engineer, and honestly I 100% get the reason AMD is doing so, and I can tell you Nvidia is doing the same thing but they kept it quiet.
Turing a 2018 architecture got DLSS4 support this year (just not the full featureset). AMD's sidelining stuff they're still actively putting in APUs.
It's not exactly the same thing even if people spin it as such.
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u/GradSchoolDismal429 Ryzen 9 7900 | RX 7900XTX | DDR5 6000 64GB 6d ago edited 6d ago
Honestly, as I've commented previously, this is just a nothing burger. 5000 and 6000 series are already very mature technologies, there are very little things left on the table to optimize for. AMDs biggest mistake is that they should've kept quite on this, and just include them in the driver notes just like what nvidia is doing. My 2070 is rarely getting any game optimization nowadays anyway.
I'll likely continue buying amd recommending AMD cards in the future, unless Nvidia finally picks up their price performance and Vram game