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Pemalite said:

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.

I am normally a big AMD supporter as I love supporting the underdog.

But my retro PC with Windows 98, Radeon 9700Pro and 2x 3DFX Voodoo 2 in SLI, 512MB of Ram, 512GB Crucial SSD, Athlon 1,400mhz has been an absolute headache on the driver front.

The latest drivers have corruption in Morrowind... But the AMD card causes the voodoo 2's to have corruption in Glide... All those issues went away when I dropped in a Geforce 4 Ti 4600.

...But I don't want the Geforce, I wanted tessellation from the Radeon. Can't win.


You would think they would have some focus on the 6000 series considering it's a full stack of GPU's and is in integrated graphics, but it may be highlighting a lack of software engineers on the project as well.

I am personally mixed with it comes to AMD. I don't have any particular need to support them because personally, I don't care if a company is in the underdog position or not. I will support companies that try to bring innovation into the market generally avoid companies that don't. With AMD, I bought Ryzen 1700x + X370 because while I knew that Intel was faster in gaming, they were lacking in innovation and dragging down the market. The idea of 2 generation CPUs per socket, up to quad core for consumers and anything more means going the expensive HEDT route has always rubbed me the wrong way. But with Ryzen, 4 years of cpu support (ended up being 5) while bringing good 8 core CPUs to the mainstream showed how greedy Intel really was. Hence why I bought 1700x > 3900x > 5950x.

Radeon on the other hand never felt quite as innovative and that's not necessarily their fault because Nvidia unlike Intel doesn't drag their feet. Nvidia knows that if they don't continue to innovate, others will overtake them. Nvidia showed how great Variable Refresh Rate tech was with G-sync. They showed us how Ai can be used to upscale from low render resolutions with relatively minimal quality loss. They showed us how GPUs outputting the fastest frames doesn't actually mean you get the lowest input latency and instead, managing the render queue with Reflex can significantly lower input latency instead. Now they are doing things like their eye contact technology where during streaming games or in a meeting, your eyes in real life can look somewhere else but to the viewers, it will look like you are looking at them. And the list goes on with Ray Tracing and etc. While I am sure you can find plenty of examples of other companies doing those things first, Nvidia popularized them and brought them to the mainstream.

So for me, it's like if I want the standard gaming experience, I would just get a $500 console. But if I am going to spend over $700 on a GPU, I don't want the standard experience... I want cutting edge features and Nvidia gives me that. While Radeon does attempt to copy those features, they are generally worse quality and sometimes a lot worse. And if they are going to charge Nvidia prices... Well at that point I don't see much of a reason to support them.