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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Meh, I think 300 series had plenty of life left in it.

Just look how well the open source community driver performs in the tests and it can still play a ton of games. The fact that Kepler with it's terrible architecture received longer driver support than 300 series which had a much more modern feature set is nuts.

This only applies to GCN 3, GCN 1 and 2, which are the bulk of the GPUs (only Tonga and the Fury/Nano cards were GCN 3) had a similar tech level as Kepler did (Kepler: DX 11_0, GCN 1+2 DX 11_1).

I do agree that Tonga and Fury/Nano should have had their support extended, they are still good. AMD probably didn't want to divide the Generation and give some cards future support and other not, and thus decided to cut it for all.

Speaking of such old cards, I wish there are more tests on how those old cards perform against more modern entry-level/Mid-range cards. Really could shine some more light upon the longevity of such cards.

Yea maybe but it's not a good outlook for the company. I get the feeling RDNA 1 will end up being the same way compared to Turing.

I do wish more reviews would test these older cards to see how they do as well but alas.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 28 April 2022