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AMD Dropping Support For Pre-HD 5000 Series GPUs in July

Posted 04/22/2012 at 11:22am | by Justin Kerr

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HD-4000 If you're still gaming on a Radeon HD-4000 series graphics card (or older) your GPU isn’t about to self-destruct, but it will fall out of mainstream support in the very near future. AMD announced today that Catalyst 12.6 will mark the end of the road for anything prior to the HD-5000 series, or to put it simply, anything that isn’t DirectX-11 compliant.

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