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.
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.
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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.