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Intel Ends Day-0 Game GPU Driver Support for 10th Gen Core and Older CPUs
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Brian_B
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Some of these products are less than 2 years old.
Yeah it's not total driver support, but the fact that Intel hasn't really been able to get behind a unified driver architecture (or, at the very least, this news update is implying if they do, it's significantly lacking) is saying something.
Can you imagine the uproar if nVidia announced they were going to stop driver support for the RTX 3070/80/90? Those were released at the same time as some of these 10th Gen products.
Yeah it's not total driver support, but the fact that Intel hasn't really been able to get behind a unified driver architecture (or, at the very least, this news update is implying if they do, it's significantly lacking) is saying something.
Can you imagine the uproar if nVidia announced they were going to stop driver support for the RTX 3070/80/90? Those were released at the same time as some of these 10th Gen products.
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Yep, that has been my concern as well. This has become common at Intel. A few years ago they even pulled all the existing updates for end-of-life products from their site.
I don't expect indefinite feature updates, but products should enter a maintenance phase after some predefined length of time and from then on receive bug fixes and security updates. I think most consumer cards from Nvidia and AMD receive about ~10 years of support in the way of driver updates.
One nice thing about Linux (or open source in general) is that the community can pick up the slack when the manufacturer no longer provides support, though that doesn't work so well with Nvidia.
I don't expect indefinite feature updates, but products should enter a maintenance phase after some predefined length of time and from then on receive bug fixes and security updates. I think most consumer cards from Nvidia and AMD receive about ~10 years of support in the way of driver updates.
One nice thing about Linux (or open source in general) is that the community can pick up the slack when the manufacturer no longer provides support, though that doesn't work so well with Nvidia.
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