Some people are reacting like they’re stopping support for these GPUs altogether. They’re putting Vega/Polaris on a slower update track, not completely stopping driver support.
I’d imagine that this saves them time when releasing new driver versions by reducing the number of GPUs to validate with every new release, since many of the newer driver features may not apply to the older GPUs anyway. On the flip side, they now have 2 driver packages to maintain instead of just one.
That said, it not good that they’re including Vega in this, given that those are still being sold, and as others have mentioned still being released until very recently.
Some people are reacting like they’re stopping support for these GPUs altogether. They’re putting Vega/Polaris on a slower update track, not completely stopping driver support.
I’d imagine that this saves them time when releasing new driver versions by reducing the number of GPUs to validate with every new release, since many of the newer driver features may not apply to the older GPUs anyway. On the flip side, they now have 2 driver packages to maintain instead of just one.
That said, it not good that they’re including Vega in this, given that those are still being sold, and as others have mentioned still being released until very recently.