AMD announced that the new Catalyst 9.4 drivers coming up from the company will not support cards that are before the Radeon HD 2000 series. The cards that will supposedly not be supported anymore include professional cards such as the FireGL X1/X2/X3, V3000, V5000, V7000, FireMV 2200, and FireMV 2250. Consumer cards that are said to be on the cut list include Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X800, X1800, and X1900 series cards. AMD is claiming that the need for this is so that as a company, it can focus on their newer model cards that are currently in the market now, and that will be released to the public in the near future.

The upcoming release of ATI Catalyst 9.3 will be the last driver to provide a monthly driver update for graphics products predating the R6xx series. What that means is all R300, R400 and R500 series products will be moved to legacy support status - meaning they will be removed from the core Catalyst update and QA testing will be reduced. Moving forward, these products will receive critical fixes if needed as well as updates on a quarterly schedule rather than the monthly schedule adhered to for current products.  Legacy support status is typically reserved for non-current products that have reached a point at which existing drivers optimize performance of the graphics product in question and further driver updates will yield little to no performance improvement. We continue to support non-current products well after drivers have reached this optimal state in order to ensure support for new applications and games.  By moving pre6xx products to legacy support status, we will be able to focus more of our software engineering resources on current and future products, operating systems and applications.  The following is a complete list of products moving to legacy support status:

ATI Radeon 9500 Series, ATI Radeon 9550 Series, ATI Radeon 9600 Series, ATI Radeon 9700 Series, ATI Radeon 9800 Series, ATI Radeon X300 Series, ATI Radeon X550 Series, ATI Radeon X600 Series, ATI Radeon X700 Series, ATI Radeon X800 Series, ATI Radeon X850 Series, ATI Radeon X1050 Series, ATI Radeon X1300 Series, ATI Radeon X1550 Series, ATI Radeon X1600 Series, ATI Radeon X1650 Series, ATI Radeon X1800 Series, ATI Radeon X1900 Series, ATI Radeon Xpress Series, ATI Radeon X1200, ATI Radeon X1250, ATI Radeon X2100 Series, ATI FireGL X1-128, ATI FireGL X1-256, ATI FireGL X2-256, ATI FireGL X2-256t, ATI FireGL X3-256, ATI FireGL Z1, ATI FireGL V3100, ATI FireGL V3200, ATI FireGL V3250, ATI FireGL V3300, ATI FireGL V3350, ATI FireGL V3400, ATI FireGL V5000, ATI FireGL V5100, ATI FireGL V5200, ATI FireGL V7100, ATI FireGL V7200, ATI FireGL V7300, ATI FireGL V7350, ATI FireMV 2200, ATI FireMV 2250