AMD abandons RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs
AMD has ended game optimization and feature updates for its Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series graphics cards, shifting them to maintenance-only support. The company confirmed to PC Games Hardware that future driver releases, starting with Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2, will provide only critical security patches and bug fixes for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs.
New game support and Vulkan enhancements in the latest driver apply exclusively to RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 hardware, such as the RX 7000 and RX 9000 series. This move affects even recent RDNA 2 models, such as the RX 6750 GRE, released in 2023, which will no longer receive performance tuning for new titles.
AMD stated that the decision enables it to concentrate its resources on developing features for its latest architectures. The RX 5000 series was launched in 2019, and the RX 6000 series in 2020, making their support window notably shorter than NVIDIA’s decade-long updates for older architectures, such as Maxwell and Pascal. The change has raised concerns among users about long-term driver support for future AMD GPUs.
