Polaris
As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well. Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced...
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33 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016
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449 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2016
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102 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2016
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105 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2016
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377 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016
AMD Announces Computex 2016 Webcast: May 31st, 7pm Pacific
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50 by Ryan Smith on 5/20/2016
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54 by Ryan Smith on 3/15/2016
AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive In Mid-2016
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153 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016
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