AMD Driver Question

[Maplez]

Just noticed while browsing techpowerup that the Radeon VII is listed as having an older latest driver then the latest AMD GPUs. Cross checked with AMD's website too, I doubt they're cutting support for the radeon VII as it was their flagship and is only 5 years old.

Anyone know why the VII isn't getting the latest drivers?

[ApexArticO5]

7 minutes ago, Maplez said:

Just noticed while browsing techpowerup that the Radeon VII is listed as having an older latest driver then the latest AMD GPUs. Cross checked with AMD's website too, I doubt they're cutting support for the radeon VII as it was their flagship and is only 5 years old.

Anyone know why the VII isn't getting the latest drivers?

I'm not ultra sure about this, but maybe its just that the GPU is old enough that it will get the occasional driver update for bugfix and compatibility, but will not have a driver update as often as the new cards? I have a RX 590 and it seems like my drivers release dates are more or less matching Radeon 7 at the moment. And yeah while I have gotten 1 driver update this year the new cards have already got like 8. I think its just the normal procedure for such stuff, all focus on the new product but maintain some support for the old. Plus older cards probably need less driver updates because they are already quite complete? Although again, not an expert in this. Hope it helps.

[xAcid9]

Basically Radeon VII was on a decade old architecture which is GCN and AMD decided to cut driver support for GCN to focus on RDNA.

[Mark Kaine]

do you even need new drivers? i barely update  mine and usually there's no issues with even new games, i mean as long your card supports the feature requirements it should work, no?

 

 

1 hour ago, ApexArticO5 said:

I'm not ultra sure about this, but maybe its just that the GPU is old enough that it will get the occasional driver update for bugfix and compatibility, but will not have a driver update as often as the new cards? I have a RX 590 and it seems like my drivers release dates are more or less matching Radeon 7 at the moment. And yeah while I have gotten 1 driver update this year the new cards have already got like 8. I think its just the normal procedure for such stuff, all focus on the new product but maintain some support for the old. Plus older cards probably need less driver updates because they are already quite complete? Although again, not an expert in this. Hope it helps.

pretty much... what are they supposed to add? you can only do so much software wise on ancient hardware..

 

[ApexArticO5]

25 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

do you even need new drivers? i barely update  mine and usually there's no issues with even new games, i mean as long your card supports the feature requirements it should work, no?

 

 

pretty much... what are they supposed to add? you can only do so much software wise on ancient hardware..

 

Yeah its fine, I'm not even complaining tbh, everything works mostly fine, was just trying to explain in my own way what the other person did in in one sentence. 

[Maplez]

On 9/14/2024 at 4:34 AM, Mark Kaine said:

pretty much... what are they supposed to add? you can only do so much software wise on ancient hardware..

 

It's not ancient yet... the radeon vii can play a game like Cyberpunk 2077 on ultra and even the gcn 2.0 r9 290x can play Cyberpunk too

[TPCEA]

On 9/14/2024 at 2:44 AM, Maplez said:

Just noticed while browsing techpowerup that the Radeon VII is listed as having an older latest driver then the latest AMD GPUs. Cross checked with AMD's website too, I doubt they're cutting support for the radeon VII as it was their flagship and is only 5 years old.

Anyone know why the VII isn't getting the latest drivers?

Less is more, when it comes to older card driver updates?

 

Or reduced support?