| Pemalite said: Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 being sunsetted sucks... Considering that RDNA 2/3 is still prolific in integrated graphics/APU's... Will likely impact their handheld chip crusade. |
This is one of the biggest fails with consumer protection. It should be illegal to do this sort of thing unless there is some sort of safety issue. And if there is some sort of safety issue, the consumer should be compensated for the loss in functionality.
As for this driver situation, massive fail from AMD. I could sort of understand if it were RDNA1 due the lack of certain key features, but RDNA2 is still manufacturered by AMD and used in APUs. The most famous of those uses is for the Steam Deck. To top it off, they've just launched the Ryzen Z2 A recently which is basically the Steam Deck's APU by another name. For a company that has seen great success on the CPU side due to platform longevity, this move is mind boggling stupid. How can the Radeon division be apart of the same company that makes Ryzen and continuously whiff on the lessons learned by their sister division. For every one step forward Radeon takes, they take one to two steps back.
Edit: I just saw that subsequent responses have also brought up the Ryzen Z2 A. I concur with the "I hope AMD gets skewered for this" sentiment.
