AMD Reverses Their Blunder - Game Support Returns to RDNA 1/2
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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.

Edit:

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    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
      4·
      6 days 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.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      7 days 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.