AMD preparing to end 32-bit drivers support

Bound to happen eventually

It appears that AMD plans to drop 32-bit support for its Radeon Software drivers. This does not come as a surprise considering that most of Radeon R9 and Fury series GPU have more than 4GB of memory and most of users have already switched to 64-bit OS.

The clue was spotted by Techpowerup.com on AMD's download center which links 32-bit driver links for Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 to AMD knowledge-base article.

That same article explains that a system running Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit can take full advantage of latest graphics cards. The same article also links to 64-bit drivers for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 OS.

For now, the 32-bit drivers are still available but really hard to find on AMD's page and AMD's latest Radeo Pro Duo dual-GPU graphics card does not have 32-bit drivers.

Fell free to let us know what you think in the comment section but we have not downloaded 32-bit drivers in a long time.





Source: Techpowerup.com.

News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini


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