| hinch said: Latest Adrenalin drivers when installed on RX 6000 series graphics cards, supposedly can change bios settings leading to; in a few cases (on Twitter) corrupt Windows. Careful peeps..
Same update affects the AyaNEO's with 6800u in restricting VRAM access to 0.5GB - https://videocardz.com/newz/amds-lastest-gpu-drivers-may-limit-vram-on-ryzen-6800u-powered-ayaneo-consoles-to-0-5-gb Radeon group just can't stop dropping the L's. But seriously.. what's going on AMD's GPU department? |
This is why you pay Extra for Nvidia cause this is exactly the type of nonsense that gives PC gaming a bad name. Don't get me wrong, Nvidia drivers also aren't always perfect but man... From Driver delays for 2.5 months to 7000 series being incompatible for a lot of emulators to now this. It's certainly not looking good for Radeon team as they without a doubt gotten rid of all the good will they managed to acquire during RDNA 2 generation.
I think a lot of it comes down to switching to dual FP32 requiring a custom driver branch, least for now. Because of this, the driver team needs to work with two different sets of drivers. For someone as big as Nvidia, this is generally not that big of a deal because of the R&D budget of their software team and the market share they have in the GPU space. For AMD, this is a huge problem because unlike CPUs, GPUs need a ton of upkeep, especially in the gaming space. Imagine supporting a GPU from 2014 like the GTX 970 with all the latest games in 2023 or in AMDs case, Polaris from 2016. Now imagine doing that with 8% market share against a opponent like Nvidia that continuously comes out with new proprietary features that you need to match.
But as a consumer, you really can't think in that fashion about the welfare of a billion dollar company. Because if you spend $1000 today only to be treated with driver delays and blue screens two years later, the lesson will be to save that extra cash and buy Nvidia. The last thing anyone wants is an unstable PC or bad experiences after spending so much money. Least with Arc it's cheap and you know what you are getting into.
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