AMD has stopped releasing driver updates for , which are equipped with Radeon RX Vega M graphics cores. This happened a few months after Intel shifted the responsibility for releasing updates to AMD. When trying to update processor drivers, users of some devices see a message that the hardware configuration is not supported.
At least this news is relevant for owners of a powerful Hades Canyon NUC mini-computer. The authors of Tom's Hardware tried to install the AMD WDDM 2.7 (20.5.1) and WHQL (20.4.2) drivers for the Vega M GH/GL graphics system integrated with the Kaby Lake-G processor, but failed. Judging by the inscription in the driver installer window, the update is simply incompatible with the Intel Kaby Lake-G processor family.
Authors Tom's Hardware to Intel technical support and found out that the company is already working on returning support for the Radeon graphics driver to the Intel NUC 8 Extreme Mini. AMD tech support has not yet clarified the situation. How things are with the owners of other devices with processors of the Intel Kaby Lake-G family is still unknown.
Intel's Kaby Lake-G chips, co-created with AMD, provide PCs with high graphics performance. However, Intel ended its partnership with AMD in 2019 as it began integrating its own Xe graphics architecture into processors. And devices with Kaby Lake-G, in fact, did not come out as much as expected. The most discussed computer of this kind was the Intel NUC, which .
After stopping cooperation with AMD, Intel promised to provide support for Intel Kaby Lake-G until about 2024. She remained responsible for releasing new versions of drivers, but did not release them for a whole year. As a result, the responsibility was shifted to AMD, which included new drivers in the AMD Adrenalin 2020 package and significantly improved performance in new games.
Source: 3dnews.ru
