AMD Halts Driver Support for Kaby Lake-G GPUs (To Intels Frustration)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/08/2020 01:39 PM | source: tomshardware.com | 46 comment(s)

AMD has halted support for driver updates for their integrated graphics units that are paired with Kaby Lake-G processors. It seems this decision is made three months ago already, but there was still a low level of support.

Granted, I've always found this their weirdest hybrid combination ever. An AMD Vega iGPU paired with an Intel processor. Well, the support is now gone from the drivers, meaning AMD moved it to a legacy status. The drop of support was noticed by some users that cannot install the new WDDM 2.7 driver (20.5.1) on the Hades Canyon NUC's with both the Vega M GL and Vega M GH chip.

Adrenalin drivers note 'the gpu hardware in the detected configuration is not supported. Intel mentions "we are working to bring back support for the Radeon drivers for the Hades Canyon nuc." AMD however has not yet responded. It seems AMD is not eager to maintain a product that it has made with arch-rival who shortly after the release of this product bought out and added several AMD key members to the Intel GPU team.

Earlier in October Intel on their end sens out a product notification that this series was EOL.

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Undying
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#5797031 Posted on: 06/08/2020 01:46 PM

Wasnt the intel who was supposed keep the gpu updated? We all saw that blue amd adrenaline ui for vega m.

schmidtbag
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#5797068 Posted on: 06/08/2020 02:40 PM

Seems like rather petty behavior of AMD. If they were to drop all of Vega I'd understand, but this one-off seems rather deliberate and I can't imagine it's all that difficult to support it.

On the other hand, why does Intel care? They drop driver support the moment a GPU becomes obsoleted by another.

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#5797091 Posted on: 06/08/2020 03:03 PM

Wasnt the intel who was supposed keep the gpu updated? We all saw that blue amd adrenaline ui for vega m.

Intel doesn't even keep their own gpu's up to date.
you've got hd 5xx support in the wddm 2.7 drivers but while the hardware can do 2.7, its software locked to 2.1

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#5797110 Posted on: 06/08/2020 03:28 PM

Its a $1000 product, that had 2 years of support. this is worse then current smart phone business...

Intel never had this GPU "updated" they don't have source code to do so. in begining intel was paying AMD to re-skin the radeon driver from red to blue.

its a petty move, considering drivers are unified, all they did was remove entries from inf file.it could easily be added back, then then you have to deal wth the signature enforcement.

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#5797154 Posted on: 06/08/2020 05:09 PM

Intel probably bought out the wrong AMD key members for their GPU team.

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