Linus Tech Tips Discussion

reach. So after that, I got rid of that Laptop by giving it to other member of family. Ever since that I used it for uni stuff, I even use it to draw and write essays for uni assignments. So that ROG ally has a LOT of story.   AMD Radeon prematurely ending support like this, AND NO, I am very sure they KNOW this thing is just two and half years old, them ending support like this out of nowhere, is really insulting for me. I've watched them doing this for way too long, specific on how long they support their drivers, and it's utter garbage. GCN - Specifically GCN2 and 3, especially Fiji: An otherwise still usable architecture at its 6th year? End of support. Polaris/ Vega: 2016 - 2018 architecture in 2023 while NVIDIA has a 2014 architecture (Maxwell) that at that time is eight years old, and still supported at that time? Nah, lets kill the support slowly on that year so people running RX580 and 590 on their system can just coping with watching their Spiderman 2 either crash or runs like ass than the 'competition' (no it's no longer competition at that point. It's total domination). RDNA/ RDNA2 incident: 2019 and 2020 architecture, still sold widely and used widely? Lets not give them more support and use 'maintenance mode' as a cover up. By the way Maxwell was supported for almost 11 years and Pascal was 9 years, at the time they announced it.   And now this. You see, I was expecting 10. TEN YEARS of support for this thing especially that it's on RDNA3, which is still 4 years old by the way, and this is also a gaming handheld specific APU. But no, Radeon has to pull their 'but I'm just the underdogs I can't do long driver support waaaaa' card and slaughter every single bits of confidence I have with their integrated graphics solution. And no, they should also not hiding behind the Linux community and say 'just use Linux bro it's still supported there'. Community support can only goes so far, and you cannot expect them to magically add GRD for so many games out there. They cannot make Spiderman 2 magically playable in one night. They cannot make RE9 magically playable at launch day. They need time, and I can understand that and feel really bad for them having to deal with being... I cannot find any other words to describe this other than slaves to AMD's own problem. Worst part is that I don't think we will see this change. We will see AMD doing this until morale improves, and it's going to be a nightmare for every single AMD Radeon customers.   Sources https://www.techpowerup.com/346624/amd-seemingly-stops-driver-updates-for-ryzen-z1-extreme-processor https://videocardz.com/newz/lenovo-korea-reportedly-ends-driver-updates-for-legion-go-based-on-ryzen-z1-extreme