In brief: AMD'due south latest Adrenalin beta graphics driver is already available, and with information technology comes new features to improve the gaming experience and the usual slew of fixes. Still, this driver as well removes some features, including back up for AMD Radeon HD 7000, Hard disk drive 8000, 200, 300, Fury, and more.

AMD has moved some of its older graphics cards to a legacy model, meaning that in that location won't be any boosted drivers supporting them. According to AMD, the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.5.2 will be the last supported commuter planned for these GPUs.

AMD's list of GPUs moving to a legacy model includes 9-year-old GPUs such as the Hard disk 7000 series, but also other more recent ones similar the GCN-based R7 M400 serial, which is only v years old.

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AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon R4, R5, R6, or R7 Graphics AMD A-Serial PRO processors with Radeon Graphics
AMD Pro A-Series APUs with Radeon R5 or R7 Graphics AMD FX-Series APUs with Radeon R7 Graphics
AMD Athlon™ Serial APUs with Radeon R3 Graphics AMD E-Serial APUs with Radeon R2 Graphics
AMD Sempron™ Series APUs with Radeon R3 Graphics AMD Radeon R7 M400 Serial Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series, R9 Nano Series Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M300 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 300 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R7 M300 Serial Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 200 Serial Graphics AMD Radeon R5 M300 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R7 300 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M200 Serial Graphics
AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R7 M200 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R5 300 Serial Graphics AMD Radeon R5 M200 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R5 200 Serial Graphics AMD Radeon Hard disk 8500M - Hard disk 8900M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon HD 8500 - HD 8900 Series Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7700M - HD 7900M Serial Graphics
AMD Radeon HD 7700 - HD 7900 Series Graphics

Nosotros are not surprised to see decade-onetime graphics cards such as the Hd 7000 serial being moved to legacy models. Nvidia also announced it'due south ceasing support of its Kepler GPUs, but unlike AMD, it gave a few months for customers to ready for it.

As for the 300, Fury, Nano and R7 M400 series, it would be nice if AMD kept supporting them. These GPUs are still fairly recent, with 5 to 6 years on their legs. Some of them were actually quite expensive, with the Fury and Nano cards releasing with an MSRP of $649 back in 2022. For that kind of price, some would expect to have a longer back up menstruum.

The graphics cards are not the but affair moving to legacy back up. AMD's also informed that Radeon Software support for Windows 7 64-fleck based Bone will likewise be removed, more a year after Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7.

This latest hotfix commuter update does more than remove support for older cards, AMD's beta introduces game optimizations for Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Brotherhood, support for AMD Radeon RX 6800M graphics (our review), and FidelityFX Super Resolution, a.thou.a. FSR (our review).