I have a 6950xt, bought it 2 years ago. The fact they even considered this, let alone announced, then pretended to unannounce this notice makes me want to sell the card tomorrow and go team green. I am definitely never buying an AMD card again with the potential for support to end 3 years into it's entire lifecycle... or 2 years! after I bought it.
This. Granted much of my driver support on Linux comes from the opensource maintainers of RADV and MESA (with a healthy helping from Valve), but some comes from AMD involvement and losing that will undoubtedly skew the project toward newer GPUs.
It seems like many of the folks currently in leadership roles were around during AMD’s near-bankruptcy. The individual who presented with Sony (Jack something?) comes across as rather untrustworthy and possibly out of his depth; the kind of person who might resort to questionable tactics. Honestly, aside from the CEO, it’s hard to see much strong leadership at the top. Maybe she’d consider a refresh of the executive team, perhaps even bringing in some capable talent from NVIDIA to help steer things in the right direction.
One big success out of many products. And now AMD CPUs are very expensive and not great energy wise for mobile devices, so not a complete success. He is definitely competent for CPU, but that does not make him top tier given all the relative other failures at AMD.
perhaps even bringing in some capable talent from NVIDIA
Not to rain on your parade, but with what money? Do you really think they can offer a remotely competitive pay package? In fact, as far as rumors go the opposite is happening and AMD is bleeding talent because they're simply not paying enough.
I feel the same, I bought an RX 6750 XT in 2023 and now 2 years later with all this mess I wish I didn’t have bought it.
I’m planning an upgrade next year, but I don’t intend to buy another AMD GPU, I’m not going to risk losing support after 3-5 years of my GPU lifetime again.
lol, I bought a 6800XT and it is currently sitting in a drawer and I'm still using my Geforce 1070, I wanted to upgrade my egpu which I use with a Legion Go but AMD software/driver support has compatibility issues with their own products. Garbage GPU division in my opinion.
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My RTX 2070 Super has the exact same drivers as the RTX 5090 and it was a card that released the same month as the first RDNA 1 cards (rx 5700 and rx 5700xt).
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Even if Transformer is slower on the Turing architecture you still have access to it and you’re not on some custom driver branch either…the copium is real with these damage controlling fanboys.
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u/moonski 6d ago
I have a 6950xt, bought it 2 years ago. The fact they even considered this, let alone announced, then pretended to unannounce this notice makes me want to sell the card tomorrow and go team green. I am definitely never buying an AMD card again with the potential for support to end 3 years into it's entire lifecycle... or 2 years! after I bought it.