The coping and seething here is hilarious. People really thought AMD would continue driver support forever, and that evergreen's short life was a fluke, eh? This is AMD, long support was never guaranteed and you knew that when buying the budget brand. Of course anyone who bought slow, hot, late fury was missing a few brain cells already, so I cant really blame them.
I'd guess the only reason AMD was continuing support was nvidia's kepler was still supported, and if they cut support first the internet would go insane, as it tends to do. Notice how all the GPUs they dropped have 4GB or less VRAM? fury was 4GB, 290x was 4GB, everything else was 3GB or lower. Nothing dropped here is a threat to pascal or higher, and even maxwell is awfully long in the tooth. Maxwell and pascal both obliterated the r9 series in total sales, hence why the 290x was at one point $220 brand new. The market today, 6+ years later, is far too small to warrant continued support.
No one is talking about the 7970 or all 7000 series......The point here is on R9 Fury and possibly R9 390/290 Cards that are still very capable cards this days in fact R9 Fury performs in between GTX 980 and GTX 980TI/GTX 1070 and those cards are "just" 5 years or so old + Exactly those cards could benefit a lot from the FSR...but hey who cares when you already decided to dress team-red-shirt....GL
Bruh. Just........bruh.
The 300/200 series
are the 7000 series. That was peak rebrandeon. Some of us warned fanbois that their support would be limited due to their age, but nobody was listening back then. The 280x is a 7970, the 380 is a 7870, ece. Then the r9 300 series were slightly updated GCN versions with similar core counts and performance to the 7000 series. We all knew that once rDNA gained traction it would be lights out for GCN, but some didnt want to listed to reason.
None of those cards perform well by today's standards. The r9 390x barely keeps 60 FPS at a mix of high/ultra settings at just 1080p, and that is the most powerful discontinued card here other then the fury. And just look at the steam hardware survey, the entirety of GCN 1.0 combined is only 0.34% of the market, less then the mighty vega 3 iGPU, nvidia geforce 710, or the RX 460. The r9 300 series doesnt even show up on steam anymore. The geforce 970 alone has 5 TIMES as many GPUs on steam right now as all the discontinued AMD GPUs on this list put together. Why should AMD continue to put resources into their old GPUs when most of their customers moved to polaris and rDNA or to nvidia?
