TheoneandonlyMrKI provided proof I don't buy every new toy so,

Your buying history says otherwise.

TheoneandonlyMrKYou don't think I have a 4k telly, you stick to doing you pal.

I never said anything about 4k and TVs. But it's 2021 and Windows 10 scaling to 4k and higher is still a sad joke.

TheoneandonlyMrKYour clearly confused, you think you know some stuff about me, you clearly don't I've had this Vega since day one, I get my worth.

And? It doesn't matter when you get it, I never said anything about that, all I'm saying is that it's still a very capable card that pretty much can do anything. As an answer to you saying that Vegas will be binned next. If anything it's going to be Polaris, as Vegas are newer and some new APUs still use Vega iGPUs.

TheoneandonlyMrKAnd I built fifteen PC's this year already, with GPUS, some, my old ones, and none for anything but their real value Rx 580 £80.
It had done years of true abuse too ,serviced adequately though.
You don't think I Could upgrade?!.

Of course you can, but if you have Vega 64 or RTX 2080, it's pointless. And RX 580 might be worth not much in terms of money, but it's like HD 4870, it will last basically forever. It will take many years until RX 580 becomes useless due to being too slow to run games. I use one with modified BIOS (which lowers TDP and raises temperature target) and I can run stuff at 1440p medium-high perfectly fine. And due to its massive VRAM buffer, it will outlive GTX 1060 and maybe even GTX 1660.

The red spiritWell they can offer a partial driver support, only adding control panel features, without driver tweaks and they still support GCN cards like RX 480 and 7970 with early GCN shouldn't be all that different.


While generally old drivers may work, in some games there could be unexpectedly low performance due to some driver tweaks needed or some other major graphical glitching. You never know. And since those cards are still GCN, maybe even fixes for RX 480 can be applied to 7970 without any issues. I would understand if AMD discontinued aging product with totally different architecture (like Terrascale 2), but GCN?


It doesn't seem to go well, if you want petition to actually work, perhaps post it on r/AyyMD.

Thanks for the heads up, i tried to post on /r/AyyMD but couldn't as my account is brand new and moderators require some time as user to avoid bots i guess, i'll try in a couple of days, hope that the news and reasons doesn't lose momentum. As far as the technical line it is, being on the same ISA (i'm talking about Tonga, Fiji, Polaris) should mean a shared branch on GPU drivers on high level code, but i understand that the devil is in the details, Tonga and Fiji were not UEFI compliant at start, Fiji fiddling and tweaking from Radeon software has vanished a long ago (which to me is a non issue at this stage), yet i have the feeling that there is a lot to gain from FSR on this old wide GCN GPUs (including even Hawaii/Grenada if technically feasible, as they are a bit older being GFX7 ISA but still DX12 feature level), as most of the time some of the CUs are doing nothing due to a sometimes weak frontend.

wow. 10 years already..
PS4 class GPU (HD7870) still capable playing a lot of games with lowered setting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but dropping support doesn't mean that the drivers will no longer have active developement? All newer driver should/will have a legacy version of the last supporting driver in the package.

You max get a newer version of the software-suit though.

Kohl BaasCorrect me if I'm wrong, but dropping support doesn't mean that the drivers will no longer have active developement? All newer driver should/will have a legacy version of the last supporting driver in the package.

You max get a newer version of the software-suit though.

No dropping support means exactly that AMD will no longer driver-support those GPU's anymore legacy drivers are just old drivers and that's it.....
You will be able to download and use drivers up to the 21.5.2 version....You can try by yourself now and download this latest 21.6.1 driver and you will read the message that your GPU is no longer supported by AMD...Bye-Bye

doesnt even matter with how buggy they are

I've got both an r9 290 and a 7970, and probably will into next year with how crazy the gpu pricing and availability situation is.
Should have jumped on some deals last summer, but I thought the new series were right around the corner and held off buying.

I'm surprised how well they still game, but they are absolute power hogs for the performance they provide.
GCN 1.0+ had a good run, not sure why some people are imploding about cards going into legacy support long after their warranties are done.

I have got an XFX HD 7870 GHz Edition, which failed me a couple of weeks ago. only working on safe mode but if you push harder it will glitch and black screen :(

Calm down bitchfaces, and download a modded driver, wasn't hard to get it going on my 8970m
so much bitching over not having a 10 year old architecture supported anymore.

All you Nvidia shills calm down, nvidia ditched support for the 880m in 2020. that was a pretty powerful 8gb laptop card that got outperformed by a 7970m for about a year due to lack of driver updates for it.

forums.guru3d.com/threads/mod-nimez-radeon-software-21-6-2-incl-gcn-legacy-pack-whql.436611/

This topic is a pretty good example of the anti-nVidia bias on this site. When nVidia announced the end to kepler support, the news headline here said "after 9 years" when the fact is nVidia is dropping support after 12 years with 3 years of notice. Now AMD suddenly drops support with no warning just 6 years after the cards came out, and the news headline claims "10 years".

Already began to feel the consequences, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown does not work anymore on my R7 M340... man my dad is going to kill me, and it isn't my fault, great job AMD, GREAT JOB.

Ian C.man my dad is going to kill me

Why?

newtekie1When nVidia announced the end to kepler support, the news headline here said "after 9 years" when the fact is nVidia is dropping support after 12 years with 3 years of notice.

12 years is, after 9 years. ;)

newtekie1This topic is a pretty good example of the anti-nVidia bias on this site. When nVidia announced the end to kepler support, the news headline here said "after 9 years" when the fact is nVidia is dropping support after 12 years with 3 years of notice. Now AMD suddenly drops support with no warning just 6 years after the cards came out, and the news headline claims "10 years".

Pretty much every site is anti Nvidia/Intel and pro AMD nowadays. AMD has a unbelievably crazy fan base and every site should pander to them or else they will get bullied.