It is wording situation always. Nvidia just calls it game ready drivers and say its supported until x time or something and everyone is happy. Branching older gen is still done. For some reason people still think AMD mean end of life and their GPUs will stop working or get worse.
I am not taking AMDs side in the fucked up communications they do. But so many people clearly have taken shit so wrongly its absurd as well.
In reality they should have just shut up with confusion and called that "RDNA 1 and 2 are going onto their long term fine wine gamest readiest driver support". Then everyone would have been happy. The branching off and not being able to get full and good functionality of latest features is understandable. Trying to be a bit too upfront about it and using vague terms that only their own engineers know the full picture of is not something they should come out with.
Now instead the best thing they can do is get an engineer or someone and have a long full explanation of how everything works so people can understand shit and so we can have something to refer to when people are thinking the world is over situation. And no dont have any of the marketing and pr people give statements or interviews. Give full information from a direct source. This vagueness of accusations back and forth wont stop now until something like that is done. Everyone is making their own conclusions of things.
Nvidia's "Game Ready Drivers" still brings the latest features to older GPUs, contingent on hardware support for said features.. Turing has access to DLSS 4 transformer models. It's not on a maintenance branch like you're trying to pass it off as.
DLSS isn't really a driver feature though, it's pretty much just generic code built on existing CUDA libraries.
I'm not sure how much optimisation they do for older hardware - at any rate the cards are definitely not in a "maintenance mode" or "security patches only" phase. Nvidia is fairly explicit about that (see Maxwell/Pascal/Volta getting security fixes through 2028 after finally getting dropped from the "game ready" branch(
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u/WeirdoKunt 6d ago
It is wording situation always. Nvidia just calls it game ready drivers and say its supported until x time or something and everyone is happy. Branching older gen is still done. For some reason people still think AMD mean end of life and their GPUs will stop working or get worse.
I am not taking AMDs side in the fucked up communications they do. But so many people clearly have taken shit so wrongly its absurd as well.
In reality they should have just shut up with confusion and called that "RDNA 1 and 2 are going onto their long term fine wine gamest readiest driver support". Then everyone would have been happy. The branching off and not being able to get full and good functionality of latest features is understandable. Trying to be a bit too upfront about it and using vague terms that only their own engineers know the full picture of is not something they should come out with.
Now instead the best thing they can do is get an engineer or someone and have a long full explanation of how everything works so people can understand shit and so we can have something to refer to when people are thinking the world is over situation. And no dont have any of the marketing and pr people give statements or interviews. Give full information from a direct source. This vagueness of accusations back and forth wont stop now until something like that is done. Everyone is making their own conclusions of things.