Never-released GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and Radeon RX 580 16GB now available in China Chinese companies are making new cards from used hardware. Recently, we have discussed the topic of RTX 4090 GPUs that are currently being disassembled and reassembled as AI-accelerators for the emerging AI market. This has been happening in China for a […]
They are diverting RX 580 into specialized driver support, which will allow them to spend more time on fixing driver issues for more modern cards and adding new features for more modern cards instead of having to make sure its compatible with 400/500 series and then troubleshoot it & make the code work with the 400/500 series, and vice versa (400/500 series bugs/features not meddling with the newer cards’ drivers). They aren’t getting new features anymore but they are still getting modern game support and security fixes. AMD isn’t dropping support, but the card won’t be getting new features.