Truly AMD shooting its own legs off in the space.

NVidia has 9+ years of game ready support on some cards (I believe 11 in some special cases) and they're expecting people to take the compromises of being low in market share (so game devs are less likely to optimize for their cards), having a feature delay vs NVidia cards on average, and then to top it all off, having less than half the length of support than their alternatives.

They do this all and expect people to be happy with that for a $50 discount.

It almost feels like they're calling their future customers stupid for believing that their cards will last.

Its crazy because NVidia has so much bad blood with consumers, and yet AMD seems almost by contract forced to cut is own legs out from under it any time it would be convenient for NVidia.

I bought a new rx6600 like2 weeks ago. It still gets regular updates and is the best card for the money if u want to play any modern titles without spending over 200 on a GPU. And has stated that in maintinence mode these cards will still get day zero game updates, their just focusing new features on their newer cards with newer architecture....

I'm not sure there is any PR spin that would make this decision less hated.

The real problem is that nobody cares about gpus anymore when ai makes them so much money.

If you're running Linux, this doesn't affect you in any way.

I’m guessing Mesa doesn’t have those either.

You know when a product is super old and so it only gets the bare minimum needed for the driver not to have security problems or major flaws? That, except the products aren't super old in this case, hence the anger.

It means that a card you could have bought yesterday will not be getting the typical game specific driver updates that fix common issues that game devs don't fix.

Is this system of drivers fixing game bugs logical? Its kinda not, but its just been how graphics and games have evolved to being over the years, which potentially means that some new games may have graphical glitches and crashing problems that it would be purely up to the developers to fix. More than that, there would also likely be optimization problems drivers sometimes fix, that these drivers will not.

This might not actually be the end of the world on NVidia cards because they have such significant market share, but for AMD cards with very small marketshare by comparison its a big problemm, because devs won't be as incentivised to do so. AMD cards are pretty much at linux levels of adoption and we can see how poor support is there, so while the cards will still run games for sure because this is not like being a different OS, they probably just will run worse.

AMD and Nvidia put hacks and workarounds in their windows drivers for individual games, to make those specific games run better. Usually only for the big AAA releases. They won't be doing that anymore for the "old" cards.

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