AMD Radeon Adrenaline: History of APUs and GPUs based on GCN1, 2 and 3

AMD Radeon’s adrenaline 21.6.1 Nvidia DLSS not only supports AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (testing), but also removes support for GCN1, 2 and 3 based APUs and GPUs, which now have the “no-effect” legacy “effect” .

AMD bears GCN 1, 2 and 3 to the grave

Like AMD On his community blog Graphics cards older than the Radeon RX400 series and APUs from the pre-Gene generation with the Wagon GPU have been announced, will no longer be supported by current Radeon adrenaline 21.6.1, and will be required to use Radeon adrenaline at 21.5 in the future. .2 Take the option.

The “Graphics Core Next” configuration was introduced in December 2011 with the successful Radeon HD 7970 (test) and Radeon HD 7950 (test).

The Polaris graphics cards based on the Graphics Core Next4 (Radeon RX400) architecture and the Raven Ridge type Raison 2000 series 15-watt Gen 1 mobile APUs are the oldest APU and GPU generations in AMD.

There is no additional support for Windows 7

At the same time as the release of Radeon Adrenaline 21.6.1, AMD also discontinued support for the Windows 7 operating system, which is no longer supported. Here again, adrenaline 21.5.2 will be the highest of emotions in the future.

Nvidia is also confused

Nvidia has also started off nicely, and a lot has come out. With the Nvidia Driver 470, the GeForce GTX 680 and the GeForce GTX 780D and the first GeForce GTX Titan (test) above with the release of the 470 (“R 470”) release Nvidia’s official graphics for Linux Driver. Last supported.