AMD driver update with Battlefield 6 support came as an unpleasant surprise.
AMD has officially announced the end of active support for video cards based on the RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 architectures — namely the Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series.
This information appeared in the release of the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 driver, which added support for Battlefield 6 and the Ryzen AI 5 330 processor. The list of changes indicates that only RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 generation cards — that is, Radeon RX 7000 and RX 9000 — received game optimizations and new features.
PC Games Hardware reached out to AMD for clarification, and the company confirmed that game optimizations and feature updates will no longer be released for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2. At the same time, driver releases will continue, but exclusively to eliminate critical vulnerabilities and serious errors.
According to AMD representatives, transferring these generations to "maintenance mode" will allow them to focus resources on developing new technologies and increasing support for current GPUs. In other words, all future driver improvements will be exclusively for RDNA 3 and RDNA 4.
This decision caused a wave of discontent among Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 owners — especially considering that the RX 6000 series appeared on the market less than five years ago and received updates until 2023, when the RX 6750 GRE was released. Now, owners of these cards are effectively left without support for new games at the driver level.
For comparison, NVIDIA supported the Maxwell and Pascal series for almost ten years. At the same time, even the announcement of the termination of their service in July 2025 caused user dissatisfaction, although the support period turned out to be much longer.
