The AMD Polaris and Vega series of graphics cards were two of the last series of graphics cards to use the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture before AMD switched to the RDNA technology used in the AMD Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 series of graphics cards. AMD has recently confirmed that both series of new graphics cards will no longer receive software updates after this.
AMD has confirmed this, saying that it has been officially end-of-life since September of this year, when both graphics cards received their last software update.
Technically these series of graphics cards are already at the end of their life, but the decision to stop software updates was made only after a series of mid-range graphics cards using the RDNA 3 graphics card was launched recently.
Among the well-known AMD graphics cards that use GCN technology are the AMD Radeon HD7000, AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon VII, which use HBM2 memory. Despite this, AMD says that these graphics cards will still receive security and other important updates if needed, but the addition of support for new features introduced by the company.
Now, with the recent launch of powerful graphics cards such as the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX up to the AMD Radeon RX 7600, AMD seems to have completely moved to RDNA offerings and is no longer dependent on offerings that use GCN technology.