Weekend tech reading: AMD cutting HD 2000/3000/4000 support on Linux?

And that's my point, 4870x2 I just upgraded from 8800GT's still crushes a lot of cards, see toms hardware chart here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-graphics-card-radeon-geforce,3085-7.html

The 4870x2's I have been "whining central" about come 9 graphical tiers above your $39 6570 card. I don't want to downgrade to so called "newer" cards when a card 4 years old still punches above it's weight.

It's not just about games and exotic setups. It's about system stability, if you have a look at driver change logs there is always fixes for visual bugs in games, screen flickering, etc, so it isn't a good reason to drop support for 4000 series which still kick some major ***.
Now assume Windows 10 or Linux kernel 5 is out, they don't work with old drivers anymore and need compatible drivers and AMD has just dropped support for your mighty $500 DirectX11 card, because DirectX13 with some small improvements which you don't care at all is out. Now how do you feel?

Really I don't see any reason to put my 4890 aside because of some silly games which force people to buy new cards to have driver support.

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

r600g/radeon now has good power management support and 3D acceleration is much improved these days with gallium. This is probably at least partially why AMD have dropped support for anything pre R800 from fglrx (Catalyst).

The difference between ATI and Nvidia is that ATI have helped develop the FLOSS ati/radeon driver whereas nvidia have provided no assistance with the reverse engineered nouveau driver.

Windows people don't need to complain - you can just install the legacy driver.

It's been officially revealed that updates to the drivers for these series and below will be quarterly, starting with an 8.97 release branch in May for 4800 series and below, 8.970 has already been leaked on another site already and the 2nd gpu clock stuck in 3d at bootup bug is still broken here on 4870x2 series card with 8.970 the same as it was in catalyst 12.3 whql+.

I hope things will be in a better position to be able to play Farcry 3 released in September on a 4870x2 properly without glitches and without being left for months with a broken driver.

All of the 12.x series so far has been problematic on these cards for me. Currently rocking 11.12 till things get fixed.

Dropping monthly support for cards scoring 7.5 in gaming graphics for the Windows 7 experience index still...laughable.

Lumping 4000 series in the same boat as the inadaquate by todays standards HD2000 series....an utter joke. Whats next in line 5000 series when the 8000 series comes out?

Only obselete cards when actually obsolete and incapable, not by engineering obsolescence. Quarterley releases that will fade to nothing once the existing active userbase is dead. This kind of practice will annoy a lot of users. Way to go AMD.

I Actually do understand the 'tier' system, I run cross-fire'd, Dual BIOS 6950's, stream hacked to 6970.

For those that are 'Mr. literal' and all butt hurt, I was using the insanely cheap price of newer 6000 series cards. As it seems most of you whiners were on about COST and not your FPS in the latest shooter.