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Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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.

JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 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

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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.

Even if AMD has work to do with RDNA3, that's no excuse to leave the older cards in the dust. C'mon, it can't be too difficult to at least add support for the newer games that have launched these last weeks.

It's unacceptable, simple as that.

As for the lack of news regarding the rest of the lineup, well, there's something of that, of course, but Nvidia doesn't seem to have problems and the latest rumors also point to a Spring or Computex launch for the rest of their cards. The amount of Ampere and RDNA2 cards on the market, especially in the used market, probably pays another important role in this delay.

I'm not trying to defend AMD, as it is a catastrophe for sure. I'm just speculating where it all went wrong and why AMD did what they did.