If you’re nonetheless working an AMD graphics card that predates the Radeon RX 5000 sequence, you’re not going to get any extra performance-boosting driver up to date from the producer. The firm says that whereas it is going to nonetheless present “critical” safety and bug repair updates to Polaris and Vega sequence playing cards, it gained’t be fine-tuning them like newer GPU merchandise. Those are primarily the Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 sequence, respectively, in addition to the Vega household of graphics cards.

Anandtech printed a press release quoting AMD straight, saying that whereas these merchandise haven’t fairly reached “legacy” standing (no assist in any respect), there’s little or no sensible motive to proceed with the usual month-to-month upgrades to optimize efficiency in video games new and previous.

Polaris-based GPUs appeared available on the market beginning in June of 2016 with the Radeon RX 480, whereas the most recent member of the Vega household was technically the Radeon VII, debuting not fairly 5 years in the past in February of 2019. Most of the Vega playing cards had wrapped up in 2017, with the RX Vega 64 being the most important and baddest of its time. That’s not together with dozens of cell GPUs and APU designed primarily based on a few of the identical structure.