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News AMD retires Radeon HD 6000, HD 5000 families

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Gareth Halfacree, 25 Nov 2015.

  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Gareth Halfacree, 25 Nov 2015
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  2. Harlequin

    Harlequin Modder

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    can see NVidia quietly nuking support for the early Fermi cards as well now tbh
     
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  3. thom804

    thom804 Minimodder

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    Don't they effectively do that as soon as a new iteration is released anyway?
     
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  4. cps1974

    cps1974 What's a Dremel?

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    I've used older cards for generations after and the drivers support has been just fine - for example take the most recent nvidia driver (WHQL) 359.00 - this provides support for the GeForce GT 420 all the way up to the more recent GTX TITAN X & GTX 980 Ti

    how far back do people expect manufacturers to keep supporting their hardware, fyi fermi was first introduced in April 2010, so fermi is over 5 and a half years old
     
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  5. thom804

    thom804 Minimodder

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    Oh, you took my meaning literally.
    I should've added a '/s' in there...

    I more meant that Nvidia only produce technologies that are advantageous to the here and now.
    Hairworks, a complete shambles on anything but the latest cards is just one example.
    Gameworks as a whole? I just won't go there...
     
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  6. Fizzban

    Fizzban Man of Many Typos

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    I'm surprised they supported them this long. Nvidia gave up on their 5 series cards some time ago and they are of a similar age.
     
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