It’s more complicated than that, VAC bans are tied to the version of game engine used. So a VAC ban in Counter Strike Source would have also banned you from TF2, DoDS, and HL2DM, and nothing else. This also means that VAC bans from CSGO don’t affect any other games (except CS2 which is technically the same game)
Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Recently there was a thing where VAC would erroneously flag AMD’s antilag+ feature as cheating, and issue a ban....