Timur Kristof, an open-source graphics developer subcontracted by Valve, reported on September 30, 2026, during his XDC 2026 talk, that decade-old AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) generation graphics cards now run cleanly on the modern amdgpu driver in Linux. This development addresses long-standing gaps in display output, video encode and decode capabilities, and crash recovery across various GCN generations. The integration provides these older AMD GPUs with a more robust and modern experience within the Linux ecosystem by incorporating them into the primary open-source driver.