AMD moves all pre-graphics core next gpus to legacy support and they are now Retired

[LukaP]

5870 was a single gpu and performed slightly better than the 480

whoops misread as 5970. marketing then

[don_svetlio]

whoops misread as 5970. marketing then

I guess all-in-one GPU-heaters were popular among gamers

[LukaP]

I guess all-in-one GPU-heaters were popular among gamers

Arent they still? Hawaii, Fury... these are all very much overly power consuming for what they do

[don_svetlio]

Arent they still? Hawaii, Fury... these are all very much overly power consuming for what they do

Fury doesn't come close to the 480 - a 390 system pulls 300W-ish and a 390X around 350W. Nothing close to 450W

[ivan134]

How? They dont skimp on compute like nvidia does. Nvidia making pascal making good at compute was news to my ears. I would love to see what sort of reasons come up with for why it has the same efficiency as Greenland.

[patrickjp93]

single GPU vs dual in days where sli/cfx support was worse than ASUS's customer support,,,

ASUS' support used to be incredible. My dad ran a community support forum for a while too, but ASUS has always been very good to us.

[SurvivorNVL]

ASUS' support used to be incredible. My dad ran a community support forum for a while too, but ASUS has always been very good to us.

From what I understand support wise - the only company that has incredible support to this day is EVGA.  

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

This means I'm next :unsure: I hope my 7990 can survive for couple more years

Neh... 7990 is still gcn. And gcn is still amd's baby.

[Dabombinable]

Rip MR HD5650. Not that the post OEM HP drivers actually made any difference.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Well, this had to happen sooner or later - Nvidia retired Thermi about a year ago or so

correct me if i'm wrong, i can still get drivers for GT 9400 card//outdated, what do you mean by they retired a GTX 400 series card? it still gets the new drivers isn't it?

[don_svetlio]

correct me if i'm wrong, i can still get drivers for GT 9400 card//outdated, what do you mean by they retired a GTX 400 series card? it still gets the new drivers isn't it?

Not that frequently - I believe they put them on partial Legacy support

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Not that frequently - I believe they put them on partial Legacy support

i can see it has all the driver any new card has. you might be misinformed. 

[don_svetlio]

i can see it has all the driver any new card has. you might be misinformed. 

What about beta or game ready drivers?

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

What about beta or game ready drivers?

can you read ?

 

Ps, go check it out yourself  http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

and i really wish people stopped with misinforming others before they claim something or atleast confirm it first themselves. 

[Dabombinable]

What about beta or game ready drivers?

Note that it says game ready.

[GloriousPain]

What does this mean for things like the 6970? cause weren't they rebranded (several times) until they became R7 370?

[Dabombinable]

What does this mean for things like the 6970? cause weren't they rebranded (several times) until they became R7 370?

Actually if you think about it, everything that is based on Southern Islands (aka the 7000 series) or newer architecture (actual new ones) is fine, while all of the other non GCN architecture such as the aforementioned R7 370 should be on the "retired" list. If not, well the older cards might be able to take a Bios mod.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

What does this mean for things like the 6970? cause weren't they rebranded (several times) until they became R7 370?

 

Actually if you think about it, everything that is based on Southern Islands (aka the 7000 series) or newer architecture (actual new ones) is fine, while all of the other non GCN architecture such as the aforementioned R7 370 should be on the "retired" list. If not, well the older cards might be able to take a Bios mod.

 

What? r7 370 = r7 265 = HD 7850

7850/r7 370 is still very much "GCN". Support for GCN cards ain't dropping anytime soon. 

[Humbug]

What does this mean for things like the 6970? cause weren't they rebranded (several times) until they became R7 370?

nope 6970 is cayman. Not a GCN part. GCN began in late 2011.

6970 came out in 2010 before GCN.

[GloriousPain]

Actually if you think about it, everything that is based on Southern Islands (aka the 7000 series) or newer architecture (actual new ones) is fine, while all of the other non GCN architecture such as the aforementioned R7 370 should be on the "retired" list. If not, well the older cards might be able to take a Bios mod.

This is what I thought

 

What? r7 370 = r7 265 = HD 7850

7850/r7 370 is still very much "GCN". Support for GCN cards ain't dropping anytime soon. 

I thought 7850 was a rebranded 6970/6950 and 7850 was 270 my bad still seems odd considering most benchmarks I've seen are very similar between the two.

 

nope 6970 is cayman. Not a GCN part.

6970 came out in 2010 before GCN.

^^ 

[samcool55]

Yes, 6950 is no longer supported... I'll have to say goodbye to mine now

It served me well for 5 awesome years. Let's hope 2016 brings us a worthy replacement for it.

[dalekphalm]

Yes, 6950 is no longer supported... I'll have to say goodbye to mine now

It served me well for 5 awesome years. Let's hope 2016 brings us a worthy replacement for it.

Well it's not like it'll just drop dead and stop working. Just no new game optimizations. It'll probably still play current and future AAA games at 1080p at medium-to-low settings (Or basically whatever you're squeezing out of it right now). Probably still good for another year or so.

[samcool55]

Well it's not like it'll just drop dead and stop working. Just no new game optimizations. It'll probably still play current and future AAA games at 1080p at medium-to-low settings (Or basically whatever you're squeezing out of it right now). Probably still good for another year or so.

Yeah fallout 4 medium without AA, works quite good. Solid 60 apart from normal hiccups or when i'm running out of memory

 

And i'm planning to keep it just an extra few months until the next gen arrives. As you said it's still good so until then i"ll be fine I really want full DX12 support tbh...

[dalekphalm]

Yeah fallout 4 medium without AA, works quite good. Solid 60 apart from normal hiccups or when i'm running out of memory

 

And i'm planning to keep it just an extra few months until the next gen arrives. As you said it's still good so until then i"ll be fine I really want full DX12 support tbh...

Well no current GPU offers "full" DX12 support. Basically all GCN cards offer full DX12_0 support though. DX12 support on the NVIDIA side is pretty scattered all over the place with some 12_0 and some 12_1 support, but not all of both.

 

I'm guessing that Pascal probably won't have full 12_0 + 12_1 support either, but if anyone has confirmation (one way or the other), that would be great.

 

If you are a user looking specifically for DX12 compatibility, I would personally look at AMD first, especially with their upcoming GPU's coming out (hopefully) not too long from now. Pascal may very well address all the missing DX12 hardware support that Maxwell doesn't have, but I imagine it was too far along in development to make many hardware level changes.

[Prysin]

From what I understand support wise - the only company that has incredible support to this day is EVGA.  

XFX

 

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