AMD Ends Driver Support For Radeon HD 8000, 7000, 6000 and 5000 Series Cards
- Note: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 and AMD Radeon HD 7950 are the minimum required cards to run Cold War and Modern Warfare. Using a slower video card may lead to performance issues in-game. Using a slower video card may lead to performance issues in-game.
- The Radeon HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD.AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013, with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture. However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although Bonaire is a GCN 2.0 based chip, thus being of.
- Package - XFX - AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT RAW II PRO 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card and Valve - Steam Wallet $50 Gift Card - Multi User rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars with 175 reviews.
- Alienware User Support Radeon HD 8000 Series The List of Graphics cards shown here will include what Alienware has to offer, but will not be limited to those options. The reason for this is that Gamers, Alienware owners or not, need support for a much wider range of the current offerings.
We missed this in the Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver release notes, but it appears that AMD had ended driver support for non-GCN based video cards and older APU's (Llano, Trinity and Richland). AMD is providing an ‘as-is' beta version of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers for those that have an older graphics cards that is still using it on the latest gaming titles or wants to try out the new software utility. If you want to use a WHQL certified driver you'll be able to use Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers as AMD is going to keep that version around for legacy users. Those running Windows Vista or XP will be stuck using AMD Catalyst 13.12 drivers from two years ago.
If you are a gamer using an older AMD Radeon HD Series Discrete graphics cards it appears that now is the time to upgrade! The good news is that AMD's legacy drivers for these cards are leaving folks with functioning Windows 10 drivers and that they aren't abandoning their users. Some of those cards are over six years old, so you can't say AMD didn't deliver as we all know cards get retired soon enough.
How are they going to name the top tier 8000 series since there is already a 8990 which is the OEM only version of the 7990?
Shields and yarnell. AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series (HD 8400 and below), Radeon HD 7000 Series (HD 7600 and below), Radeon HD 6000 Series, and Radeon HD 5000 Series Graphics products have reached peak performance optimization as of November 24th, 2015.
These products have been moved to a legacy support model and no additional driver releases are planned. This change enables us to dedicate valuable engineering resources to developing new features and enhancements for graphics products based on the GCN Architecture.
Radeon 8000 Series
AMD Ends Driver Support For Radeon HD 8000, 7000, 6000 and 5000 Series Cards
- Note: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 and AMD Radeon HD 7950 are the minimum required cards to run Cold War and Modern Warfare. Using a slower video card may lead to performance issues in-game. Using a slower video card may lead to performance issues in-game.
- The Radeon HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD.AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013, with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture. However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although Bonaire is a GCN 2.0 based chip, thus being of.
- Package - XFX - AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT RAW II PRO 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card and Valve - Steam Wallet $50 Gift Card - Multi User rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars with 175 reviews.
- Alienware User Support Radeon HD 8000 Series The List of Graphics cards shown here will include what Alienware has to offer, but will not be limited to those options. The reason for this is that Gamers, Alienware owners or not, need support for a much wider range of the current offerings.
We missed this in the Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver release notes, but it appears that AMD had ended driver support for non-GCN based video cards and older APU's (Llano, Trinity and Richland). AMD is providing an ‘as-is' beta version of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers for those that have an older graphics cards that is still using it on the latest gaming titles or wants to try out the new software utility. If you want to use a WHQL certified driver you'll be able to use Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers as AMD is going to keep that version around for legacy users. Those running Windows Vista or XP will be stuck using AMD Catalyst 13.12 drivers from two years ago.
If you are a gamer using an older AMD Radeon HD Series Discrete graphics cards it appears that now is the time to upgrade! The good news is that AMD's legacy drivers for these cards are leaving folks with functioning Windows 10 drivers and that they aren't abandoning their users. Some of those cards are over six years old, so you can't say AMD didn't deliver as we all know cards get retired soon enough.
How are they going to name the top tier 8000 series since there is already a 8990 which is the OEM only version of the 7990?
Shields and yarnell. AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series (HD 8400 and below), Radeon HD 7000 Series (HD 7600 and below), Radeon HD 6000 Series, and Radeon HD 5000 Series Graphics products have reached peak performance optimization as of November 24th, 2015.
These products have been moved to a legacy support model and no additional driver releases are planned. This change enables us to dedicate valuable engineering resources to developing new features and enhancements for graphics products based on the GCN Architecture.
Radeon 8000 Series
As a courtesy to our valued supporters we are providing a final 'As Is' Beta driver together with the release of the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition. The AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta driver includes the redesigned user interface as well as some enhanced features. More information can be found in the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta Driver Release Notes.
For users looking for a WHQL certified driver, the AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 driver will continue to be available for users running Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7. Users running Windows Vista and older Microsoft operating systems can use the AMD Catalyst 13.12 driver. These drivers are available for download on the Drivers + Download Center page.
For users passionate about gaming, you may wish to consider upgrading to a modern GPU and benefit from exciting new features, improved performance, lower power consumption and broader compatibility with the latest PC games.
Amd Radeon Hd 8000 Series
I just performed a clean installation of openSUSE 13.1 on an HP Pavilion 10 TouchSmart 10-e010nr with AMD Radeon HD 8180 graphics. I needed to run the installer with the 'no KMS' video option. The installation appeared to work well. Upon reboot, however, attempting to boot into X halts before X begins, with the last message to scroll by being:
[ OK ] Started LSB: X Display Manager
The openSUSE 13.1 release notes suggest that I try to boot with nomodeset:
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x8..1/#sec.114.kms
However, that parameter is already present on the kernel boot command, presumably as a result of my running the installer with no KMS. Just for laughs I tried booting with that parameter removed; no change.
dmesg | grep radeon says:
[drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting.
[drm:radeon_init] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module!
Per man radeon, the HD 8000 series is supported.
Searching the web, I found recommendations to try booting with the kernel parameter radeon.modeset=0. Specifically, I tried all of the following, but none brought X to life:
radeon.modeset=0: no change
nomodeset radeon.modeset=0: no change
nomodeset: no change
radeon.modeset=1: froze earlier in the boot process; I could not access the console
nomodeset radeon.modeset=1: kernel panic
(null: none of the above): no change
Finding no further tips either in the release notes or in searching here and the web, I'm out of ideas. What might I try to get X working on this hardware?