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[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]No if anything they did it because of financial difficulties. And historically nvidia has had superior legacy support so basically the culture at AMD isnt geared towards supporting older products which is a loss for consumers.
It's pretty simple there are just 2 companies in the GPU business with nearly identical performance across the different price points. One offers much superior after sales service than the other so why would you buy from the other company?
What about the 4870X2?? That sort of a card thrives on constant driver updates. There is just no way to defend this.
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If you are a normal person you will buy a new graphics card before support goes from once a month updates to once every few months.
If you are curious how many people this affects, on the steam hardware survey:
1.01% of users have a 4850, which is a decrease of 1.21% over the course of the last month
0.89% of users have a 4870, which is a decrease of 1.27%over the course of the last month
0.57% of users have a 4650, which is a decrease of 0.19%over the course of the last month
0.52% of users have a 4350, which is a decrease of 0.19%over the course of the last month
0.45% of users have a 4670, which is a decrease of 0.26%over the course of the last month
0.44% of users have a 4890, which is a decrease of 0.23%over the course of the last month
0.09% of users have a 4670, which is a decrease of 0.13%over the course of the last month
So for those that is 3.97% of people that participated in the steam hardware survey had HD4000 series cards in March, down from 7.45% in february.
I could make the arguement that there will be less than 1% of users using HD4xxx series cards by the time that AMD drops support for monthly updates of them.
Keep in mind, they are not going to just stop working, the driver update cycle for these cards is going from once a month to twice a year. And I don't know anyone with an old video card that needs monthly updates.
pretty much this....the numbers don't lie. The problem with nvidia is they HAVE to support their older cards since a large chunk of their users still run an 8800gt. Just a quick look at the numbers on steam hardware and it says dx 10 cards still outnumber the dx 11 cards, 47% to 44%, and of all dx10 cards on the market 10%+ of that belongs to the 9800/8800/250 models. Another thing is even I who has a relatively new card don't do driver updates every month, i leave it for every 4 months or so since I get too lazy to do it. I never have any issues with the games I play so I don't have the need to update.
Numbers are numbers are numbers.... in and of themselves they say nothing. I am sure there are more than 4% of gamers with 4k series cards.... these stats are tainted by the willingness of people to take the survey, and after a recent update people are far more likely to do so... but bearing in mind that they will still offer occasional updates I don't understand why this is a big deal.
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