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JEMC said:

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.1.2 (RX 7900)
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-1-2-rx-7900
Highlights
Support for:

• Forspoken
• IREE compiler using MLIR interface on Vulkan.
• Additional Vulkan extensions. Click here for more information.

Fixed Issues

• AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may fail to launch with the error message “Delayed Write Failed” on Microsoft® Windows® 11 version 22H2.
• Poor performance and load time may be observed while playing SpaceEngine™.
• Missing or flickering textures may be observed while playing Emergency 4™.

>> This is, once again, a driver update only for the new 7900 cards and, as TechPowerUp notes, there has been no driver updates for older cards for the last 48 days. Way to go, AMD!

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.2 for RX 7900 Series Third Straight Exclusive Driver, No New Driver for RX 6000 Series Since 48 Days

https://www.techpowerup.com/304024/amd-software-adrenalin-23-1-2-for-rx-7900-series-third-straight-exclusive-driver-no-new-driver-for-rx-6000-series-since-48-days

I don't know what is going on at Radeon but they are on a mission to completely ruin their brand image. If you go to Nvidia's driver page and search up the latest driver for Maxwell, it's on the exact same driver level as Lovelace that was released yesterday even though Maxwell came out in 2014. Meanwhile Radeon can't be bothered for some reason to update their 6000 series? I know 7000 series has had a lot of issues and is their top priority but drivers are the life line of GPUs. I really hope they update it soon.

Seems to confirm my theory that NVidia's Ada cards forced AMD's Hand and they had to release a yet unfinished card to not let NVidia take the entire market for themselves. As such, they are now rushing to get the 7000 cards working properly, at the cost of not upgrading the drivers for the 6000 and older cards until it's at an acceptable level.

Edit: This is probably also why we didn't hear anything from lower-end RDNA3 GPUs outside of Laptop GPUs yet, as they already have desktop GPUs in that performance level out there with the RDNA2 cards. I don't expect any RX 7800 or below to be released before spring, with late April being the earliest I can think of.

Whatever the reason may be, this is unacceptable. RDNA 2 is still on sale. I recommended RDNA 2 to people during the holiday season and now that they aren't getting any driver updates makes me look bad. When people buy a new GPU, they don't want to hear excuses as to why the product they bought isn't getting any driver updates when the competitors GPUs from 2014 is on the latest driver. I get delaying drivers for older GPUs generations that are not on sale like RDNA 1/Vega/Polaris but RDNA 2? Seriously?

Personally I won't be recommending Radeon after the amount of nonsense they are putting people through at any price. Because at the end of the day, when you recommend something to someone and the product turns out to have problems, the blame goes back to you.