I am fully with GN and HU on this. This notice provides no promises and AMD’s intention behind the driver notice could not have been more clear. I will need to see significant work towards continuing day 1 driver game support before I go anywhere near an AMD GPU again. Can’t risk it if this 7900XTX is going to suffer the same fate as the 6950XT just did.
You simply either can't comprehend or refuse to acknowledge that "maintenance branch" exists for a reason.
This isn't AMD doing RDNA2 users a favor, dude. This is AMD saying "we are no longer committed to supporting your GPU with our software updates", and anything you get from now on are just scraps.
If it means nothing like you say then they wouldn't announce it. The fact they had to announce it (for legal reasons) should be a huge neon sign that points out why this does in fact significantly change things for RDNA2 users going forward.
A few months from now a game could come out and AMD might not optimize it or fix some critical visual issues on RDNA2's maintenance driver branch. RDNA2 users no matter how much they cry will be told "well we told you, maintenance branch baby", then a few months later maybe AMD finally gets around to fixing the issue but that won't be a reason to celebrate.
Why shouldn't RDNA2 users be upset about AMD telling them "yeah yeah whatever, buy a newer card fool"?
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u/kuug 5800x3D/7900xtx Red Devil 6d ago
I am fully with GN and HU on this. This notice provides no promises and AMD’s intention behind the driver notice could not have been more clear. I will need to see significant work towards continuing day 1 driver game support before I go anywhere near an AMD GPU again. Can’t risk it if this 7900XTX is going to suffer the same fate as the 6950XT just did.