AMD is weaning the market off its older gaming graphics card series that predate the Radeon RX 5000 series. The company is reportedly putting older GPUs based on the "Vega" and "Polaris" graphics architectures on a slower driver update track, which means driver updates to these GPUs will be less fre...
I can understand polaris as their product is quite old but they were still selling those chips back in 2019, thats 4+ yrs only.
Vega chips? They are in laptop APU as new as 7000 series, these chips are still selling when we are going into 2024. A lot Laptop get 3yrs of warranty, some can even extend to 5yrs. Thats year 2029, AMD need to keep vega supported until year 2029.
otherwise I wont consider buying any AMD product that carries a Radeon brand.
Nvidia still has Maxwell (2013) still ‘supported’ in the main driver releases (some generational specific bugs don’t get fixed). AMD has a pattern now of just dropping multiple generations of support from their driver package, even if the cards are perfectly usable in some instances.
They aren’t dropping support, they are ‘only’ dropping the priority for those.
Should they be doing this? No. Are they dropping support? Also no.
I highly doubt AMD are going to keep vega with critical security support until 2029. Vega is still a 2024 product, not giving them at least 5 yrs support is very bad.
If AMD dont wanna support architecture for so long, may be they should have start using RDNA iGPU back in 5000 series, and stop selling any vega APU in 2020 onward.
Vega is a 2024 product? They will be selling them next year?
Also, they might support it, you don’t know yet. Let’s criticise AMD for what they are doing, not for what they might do.