After Confusing Driver Release, AMD Says Old GPUs Are Still Actively Supported

AMD heard angry gamers loud and clear — your Radeon 5000 and 6000 GPUs will get game updates right away.

AMD, October 30th: “Future driver updates with targeted game optimizations will focus on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 GPUs.” AMD, October 31st: “New features, bug fixes and game optimizations will continue to be delivered as required by market needs in the maintenance mode branch.” AMD today, after a wave of anger: “Yes, game optimization and support for all RDNA Series 1 through 4 will roll out at the same time in both driver packages — including but not …

After confusing driver release, AMD says old GPUs are still actively supported

Re-using old silicon means that dropping “old” GPUs can affect “new” products.

AMD continues support for older Radeon GPUs with driver updates

After days of confusing gamers over the future of its Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 GPUs, AMD changed its story yet again Sunday night, now claiming that its older generation of GPUs will live on their own “optimized” driver path. “This is not the end of support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2,” AMD said in a blog post, referring to the GPU architecture of the RX 5000 and RX 6000 cards. Instead, those earlier Radeon cards will remain on a single “optimized d…

AMD Promises Continued Driver Support For RDNA 1 “RX 5000” & RDNA 2 “RX 6000” GPUs

AMD has confirmed continued driver support for its older Radeon GPUs based on the RDNA 1 & RDNA 2 architecture in a new statement. AMD Clears Up The Confusion Surrounding Radeon GPU Driver Support: Confirms RDNA 1 & RDNA 2 To Receive New Game Support & Optimizations The last few days haven't been…

AMD confirms its older GPUs will still support new games despite focus on new features for RDNA 3 and RDNA 4

Last Updated on November 3, 2025 AMD fans were recently given a little bit of a shock when the company published its AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 release notes. The patch originally caused some confusion by revealing that older RDNA architectures, namely RDNA 1 and RDNA 2, would be entering “maintenance mode”. For reference, this ...