AMD surprised its customers yesterday by announcing that its Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series GPUs will be partially retired from the regular monthly game optimization cycle. These RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs will still receive essential patches for security vulnerabilities and critical issues. However, with the release of Software Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2, the company is reallocating its development resources to focus on newer hardware. This decision is particularly surprising given that the Radeon RX 6000 series is less than four years old, making gamers who bought these GPUs at inflated prices (during the crypto mining boom), extremely disappointed at their sand cubes.
As the company shifts these GPUs into maintenance mode, we don’t know what to expect in the coming months. However, an AMD spokesperson has clarified to Tom’s Hardware: “New features, bug fixes and game optimizations will continue to be delivered as required by market needs in the maintenance mode branch.” AMD plans to shift focus on the upcoming Adrenalin Edition releases for performance enhancements and game-specific improvements. This will happen exclusively on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 architectures. Nonetheless, we don’t know what is AMD’s definition of what the “market needs,” so we have to follow and wait for future driver updates before we can rule out these GPUs completely.
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