Day-One game optimization will not be available for AMD Radeon RX 6000 and RX 5000, although they will still be included in the main driver branch.

AMD has removed the Radeon RX 6000 series and RX 5000 series GPUs from the regular monthly game optimization cycle, a somewhat unexpected decision. They will still be supported by the monthly driver upgrades, but only the RX 7000 and RX 9000 series will benefit from the game optimizations. Critical security flaws and problems will be fixed in the monthly driver releases. The Radeon RX 6000 series in particular is less than 4 years old, and gamers who bought those cards did so at wildly inflated prices because the RX 6000 series and NVIDIA’s RTX 30-series were released during the cryptocurrency mining rush, which saw miners hoard GPU inventory. This is what makes the move unexpected.

AMD states in a statement to PCGH that was automatically translated from German:

RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 graphics cards will continue to receive driver updates for critical security and bug fixes. To focus on optimizing and delivering new and improved technologies for the latest GPUs, AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 is placing Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series graphics cards (RDNA 1 and RDNA 2) into maintenance mode. Future driver updates with targeted game optimizations will focus on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 GPUs.