Nvidia still supports its USB-C variant, Virtual Link, to this day, despite no GPUs since the RTX 20 series having the port. In fact, the company supported its Maxwell and Pascal graphics for roughly a decade, with the GTX 10-series being part of the day-one priority list all the way up until September of last year, a whole eight years after it first debuted. Perhaps that's what you can do when you're the richest company in the world. Contrast that to RDNA 1/2, and even with the RX 7000/9000 hierarchy in mind, the decision seems baffling.
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-Fran- AMD really needs to come out and clarify this further. Typical AMD screw up. Regards. Reply
LordVile I doubt they’ll drop drivers for bespoke devices with large multinationals. Likely just the desktop parts Reply
hwertz Just put Linux on it. They have Vulkan support down to GCN1.0, fully supported, fully up to date, still receiving speedups, bug fixes, support for new Vulkan versions as they come out, with no plans to put it in some 'maintenance mode'. (And fully supported drivers going back about 20 years for Intel and AMD/ATI GPUs.) Reply
enb141 I've been saying this for years, AMD support is crap, I got an 6400 a few years ago because getting an Nvidia back then was an impossible task. Back then I said that card had crappy drivers, nobody listened to me, now a few years later, time proved me right. Reply
edzieba LordVile said: I doubt they’ll drop drivers for bespoke devices with large multinationals. Likely just the desktop parts If they were willing to continue developing optimisations for the RDNA2 architecture, there'd be no reason to drop that for consumer cards but keep doing that work for OEM ones. It's a minimal additional overhead to the actual work, but with a big public relations backlash. hwertz said: Just put Linux on it. They have Vulkan support down to GCN1.0, fully supported, fully up to date, still receiving speedups, bug fixes, support for new Vulkan versions as they come out, with no plans to put it in some 'maintenance mode'. (And fully supported drivers going back about 20 years for Intel and AMD/ATI GPUs.) If the issue is lack of ongoing per-game optimisation, "switch to Linux" is an anti-solution. AMD aren't stopping bugfixes or security updates for older cards. Reply
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