AMD Updates "Polaris" and "Vega" GPU Drivers With Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 Version

AMD has released a new GPU driver update for its older "Polaris" and "Vega" GPU architectures, which are now almost a decade old. The latest Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 drivers, released a few days ago, are specifically designed for these two architectures, which were AMD's popular gaming GPUs before the RDNA 1.0 generation. Interestingly, the Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 driver update for "Polaris" and "Vega" GPU architectures includes only a single fix: resolving an application crash issue in Apex Legends on Radeon RX 400/500 series graphics cards. No other changes have been made, aside from updating this driver version from the August 2025 release of Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 for these two GPU architectures.

Officially, the driver supports Radeon RX 400, Radeon RX 500, Radeon 500X, Radeon RX Vega, Radeon VII, Radeon Pro Duo, and Radeon 600 Mobile GPUs, which encompass all the series AMD released based on these GPU architectures. As some may recall, AMD's "Polaris" debuted in 2016 for OEM systems and appeared in 2017 for gaming GPUs, while the "Vega" GPU generation lasted until 2019, with the Radeon VII being AMD's last release. Although these GPU architectures have been replaced by RDNA, they have lost some relevance, but there are still millions of these GPUs in use worldwide, prompting AMD to issue a few final fixes like the one we see today.