amd在官文的聲明中說：“amd生產的directx 9類型ati radeon顯卡不支持windows7，如果用戶選擇了，可以在windows 7下安裝ati catalyst的vista版本驅動。請注意，不支持windows7顯卡驅動(wddm 1.1t版本)的功能，因為vista等級的顯卡僅限于wddm 1.0版本。amd官方不支持在windows7下使用ati catalyst的vista版驅動，amd不會向任何客戶提供類似支持。”

按此聲明，amd的許多顯卡將無法支持widows7。nvidia的windows 7驅動則不同，它可以支持geforce6以下產品。

附：不支持windows7的ati顯卡列表

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 series

ati radeon x1250 series

ati radeon x2100 series