After days of confusing gamers over the future of its Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 GPUs, AMD changed its story yet again Sunday night, now claiming that its older generation of GPUs will live on their own “optimized” driver path.

“This is not the end of support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2,” AMD said in a blog post , referring to the GPU architecture of the RX 5000 and RX 6000 cards.

Instead, those earlier Radeon cards will remain on a single “optimized driver path,” while the newer RX 7000 and RX 9000 will follow a second, optimized release, according to the company.

AMD said the older models will continue to receive “game support for new releases: stability and game optimizations; [and] security and bug fixes.”

“Our goal is simple: to give every Radeon gamer the best experience possible,” A

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