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AMD Backtracks Previous RDNA1 and RDNA2 Maintenance Mode Statements. 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to Continue Getting Individual Game Support. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by Credibly_Human@lemmy.world to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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Link to official blog post (somehow still blames people for correctly understanding their first statements)

Of Note:

  • No dates were specified, No commitments made.

  • Day 1 game support was not promised, just individual game support.

  • They still plan on splitting the development for RDNA1 and RDNA2 from RDNA3 and RDNA4 development, giving only the latter support for new features.

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If AMD wants to go beyond single digit share in consumer GPUs, they need to invest into their software support. This means at least ~7 years of mainline support for the desktop GPUs and ~5 years of mainline support for mobile GPUs.

For RNDA1 this would mean it would be fair to sunset mobile support in late 2025 (last RNDA1 mobile GPU was the Radeon Pro 5600M released in Jun 2020). For desktop dGPUs, that would mean a support window until August 2027 (the last RDNA1 dGPU released was the Radeon Pro 5300 in August 2020).

For RDNA2 this would mean both mobile and desktop support till 2030. If AMD doesn't want to extend RDNA2 support, then don't release products with RDNA2 in 2025 (mobile) and 2023 (desktop).

Honestly, I can sort of understand moving RDNA1 to maintenance mode by say 2026Q1. RDNA2? They literally released a mobile RDNA2 product a few months ago.

[–] Lippy@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

They're apparently still releasing 'new' APUs which use RDNA2: The 10 and 100 series.

Not sure what AMD are thinking, but I've a feeling that this isn't going to help them regain market share.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It really is an absurd set of choices to me.

If people can't rely on your products working well for typical lengths of ownership from launch, even without the super strength, radioactive mammoth in the room of NVidia, its going to be a hard sell to sell your products.

I just refuse to believe development costs enough for this to be a rational decision for them.

Maybe they think people will see this, and then think nothing of it when they go to buy their next GPU? I mean to play devils advocate from their POV, many people don't look deeply into companies and just buy based on a quick look at benchmarks.

The thing is, many buy off of even less than that, and if their enthusiast friends are telling them that AMD is not a brand to trust with GPUs, then theres going to be a big reputation problem. A reputation problem they're already struggling with from years of being known for bad drivers, that they only recently shook.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tldr the GPUs are still supported and will work for new games, new features get released on new compatible hardware, and when they stop support on windows you can always move to Linux and continue to get support for your AMD cards for likely years to come

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

when they stop support on windows you can always move to Linux and continue to get support for your AMD cards for likely years to come

You know this is not applicable for the vast majority of people lets be honest. Most GPU buyers either have some multiplayer games with "incompatible" anti cheat that they want to play, or simply don't want the extra hassle (that linux enthusiasts would like you to believe does not exist), of switching to a new OS both from the inertia of already knowing a prior OS and from the reality that there are simply more hitches in a linux experience for a normal person due to less development support both from app makers and distro maintainers (purely due to less money and people).

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Buy a new GPU then

Over 90% of games run on Linux without "extra hassle"

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You know exactly what nuance that "90%" means. I'm sure you're willing to dismiss many popular multiplayer games as all "not being worth it" but not most people. Thats of course on top of the other reasons people have.

Has nothing to do with my GPU. That's irrelevant to the points made.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

We're talking about getting extended support after your GPU has been dropped on windows because it's obsolete. Of course it's relevant. You're just constructing a strawman

[–] Hond@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

It already rubbed me the wrong way how soon they sunsetted support for GCN cards. Especially since they introduced Vega 8(?) products in APUs till 2021 or something like that? Which means it should atleast still get support for another 2 years from here on now. Instead support ended years ago.

But at the time i could kinda see how they wanted to focus on RDNA. Still shitty but there was atleast some resemblence of a technical reason there. But now trying to stop support for RDNA because of the focus on RDNA is just fucking laughable.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

To me, this seems like pretty much what they were expecting to do in the first place, and a classic case of pushing too far on purpose, just to back track to pretty much where they wanted to be. A plan that is a classic among big corporations.

I don't think this is good enough, because it still would make future customers wary of buying their products, just to have support for new features dropped, in some cases, just days after they buy the product.

Some could argue that they don't "owe" anyone that, but this is how the tech industry has worked for a while with its fast moving software pace. If NVidia, their only major rival, and even Intel, both continue to offer full fledged support for far longer than AMD, this continues to really dampen the reasons one would go for an AMD card.

Now AMD cards will have:

  • Shorter prioritized driver support

  • Less game support from devs (due to their lack of market share)

  • Fewer games covered by their game specific features (FSR4 Suite) than their main competitor (NVidia with DLSS and FG)

  • Trailing feature development (on average) when compared to their main rival NVidia

And users will be expected to accept this, all for a discount of typically just 50 dollars for GPUs of similar raw performance.

That seems like a very raw deal to me, and that is very unfortunate given the already greater than 90% market share NVidia commands in gaming and even higher market share in enterprise compute (AI included).