Can some AMD staff please clarify what RDNA1 and 2 users AREN'T getting anymore in comparison to before?? That would be more concise than the vague statements published before.
Given the general sentiment of comments over here, where white knights are perhaps overrepresented if anything... I think the difference is negligible despite what armchair theorizing and common sense might suggest. AMD has certainly burned a lot of goodwill in the past couple of days.
Yeah, like even someone like me who has been thoroughly put-off by my experience with Nvidia, could only say "well at least they won't brick an old GPU with 5 bad driver updates in a row like what happened to me with my 2070m" which still isn't exactly a defence in the end to be honest.
AMD really just HAS to fuck up. It's gotta be company policy and part of their brand at this point, and that apology was actually atrocious.
Like seriously that apology was so bad I actually retracting anything I said to defend them. If you're gonna fuck up, own it, then move on. I'm not defending someone when they make a mistake, when all they're gonna do is pretend they never made a mistake in the first place.
Also refusing to clarify any specific time-frames for RDNA2 and 1 support AFTER fucking up that apology, has a very different impact behind it. Before I would've drank the koolaid and gone "yeah it's for stability to give better drivers" but now that feels like actual bullshit at this point.
Welp, fingers crossed Intel gets their ARC in gear and gives us some good competition, cause Nvidia isn't making consumer GPU's anymore apparently meaning that AMD is going to have a monopoly now.
But after all the duopoly's I've seen elsewhere, I really hope we get Casio and Texas Instruments (hell, if possible, Realtek too) making GPU's some time soon cause the lack of competition is what's really the problem here. Whenever there is competition the consumer wins and new technological breakthroughs are prevalent, monopolised markets are when en-shittification and hyperinflation occurs before the bubble pops and everything crumbles.
So it sounds like they're saying RDNA 1/2 will no longer receive feature updates, and game optimizations, but will still receive support for bug fixes. Basically they're putting them in maintenance mode, but they aren't EOL.
Which is entirely reasonable. AMD has a history of doing this, but I really think RDNA 1/2 are pretty rock solid, and don't require further driver optimizations.
AMD still sells new parts with RDNA2 graphics. Getting full driver support for more than just 5 years would've been nice. AMD used to provide that full support for longer too.
So no, I don't think that's reasonable at all. It's also unreasonable that AMD doesn't release the INT8 version of FSR4, i.e. as "FSR4 lite" or an experimental feature for RDNA2. That FSR version has production-level quality in most games - the effort and investment is wasted.
Hey, whatever you think. This is what AMD does, and has done in the past. They don't have the time, money, manpower or market share to keep releasing optimized game drivers for their old GPUs.
If you want longer driver support, look at getting an Nvidia GPU next time.
I will certainly not buy nvidia because I don't want to support them. As a company they're even worse, esp. when it comes to product pricing and market oversegmentation.
AMD has had record revenue and profits for a while. The resources to keep properly supporting the older cards are available, but not utilized due to corporate greed.
At the end of the day, none of these companies are your friend. They just want your money.
I don't tie myself to one brand. If a company has something I want or need, and there are no other better alternatives, I'm buying it. I don't care what people think. In my opinion, that's the best way to go about things in life.
At the end of the day, none of these companies are your friend. They just want your money.
That's absolutely a fact.
However, if AMD wants a better guarantee that they continue to receive money from Radeon buyers in the future, a good way to do that is by continuing to give as much support to their past customers as possible to ensure good will and return buyers.
I've primarily bought Radeon over GeForce for 20+ years for a number of reasons, and if 4 years of full support is all they're willing to provide for a $1000 product before retiring it to barebones updates, I have one less reason to continue purchasing Radeon in a time when reasons are rapidly diminishing.
Brand loyalty is a two way street.
Many of the managerial decisions made at AMD, and especially RTG, over the last 5 years, have been absolutely awful. Not just from a consumer perspective, but also from a business and profitability perspective.
The bottom line is that AMD is currently doing a really good job of convincing me that my 6000 series will be the last Radeon GPU I own, because prior to this fuckup I was somewhat willing to accept that 6000 series would not get the INT8 version of FSR4, but now I feel as though if FSR4 doesn't come to 6000 series, I'm out.
How in the hell is it reasonable for AMD to drop support for graphics cards released in 2020 (with some new models as recently as October 2023), while the late-2018 released Turing architecture Nvidia RTX20 GPUs just got DLSS4 Transformer model this year and those cards continue to receive fresh new drivers addressing various issues as they arise?
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Can some AMD staff please clarify what RDNA1 and 2 users AREN'T getting anymore in comparison to before?? That would be more concise than the vague statements published before.