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Guru3D.com » News » AMD Will Release a Raven Ridge APU Graphics driver once each Three Months

AMD Will Release a Raven Ridge APU Graphics driver once each Three Months

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/18/2018 09:03 AM | source: | 11 comment(s)
AMD Will Release a Raven Ridge APU Graphics driver once each Three Months

Those who have bought a Raven Ridge Based APU have been experiencing a bit of a hard time drivers wise. When the APUs first released, the driver set was separated from the Radeon Software branch. Later on, AMD promised to add the driver set towards the existing Adrenalin install based drivers.

However, as the adopters of AMD Ryzen 3 2200G and AMD Ryzen 5 2500X, driver support has been lacking. And for an APU with low-level gaming capabilities, that means they miss out on the better game optimization that dedicated graphics card owners do take advantage of. Early May AMD released an Adrenalin driver that included support for Raven Ridge, making a lot of people happy. From there onwards it was expected that all Adrenalin driver would get APU support. As it turns out now, things are not as unified on a driver level at it seems. Recent Radeon driver updates all lacked Raven Ridge support.

As it turns out now, there will be a driver for Raven Ridge every three months. Social media manager Matt, from AMD, responded with the announcement that only the WHQL versions of the drivers will include RR support and these are released once every three months, these thus offer support for the APUs.  That means that any hotfix or beta driver will not support Raven Ridge APUs. And yes, that is going to disappoint a lot of consumers, as they really would like that 0-day game support on their APUs as well.

It's a little weird to see, Intel is moving to 0-day game support with their drivers for IGPs, and AMD is falling back to just four drivers per year for their APUs. Then again, at least you get four sets of WHQL drivers for your APU each year.

 

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fantaskarsef
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#5558210 Posted on: 06/18/2018 09:27 AM
Even though I have one now, I'm not sure more than those updates are needed... it's not like that APU is the killer gaming chip that needs to match every upcoming game's release with a game ready patch ;) :D

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#5558232 Posted on: 06/18/2018 11:54 AM
I was thinking why intel is doing patches for driver at all. I think intel driver stable functionality is all you need.

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#5558237 Posted on: 06/18/2018 12:19 PM
I was thinking why intel is doing patches for driver at all. I think intel driver stable functionality is all you need.


Practicing for their gaming gpu's of 2020?

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#5558239 Posted on: 06/18/2018 12:25 PM
Practicing for their gaming gpu's of 2020?


That's exactly what i was thinking.

Maybe Intel wants a GPU driver team who performs better than AMD GPU (sleeping) Tiger team.

It's not a big challenge if their goal is something different than adding social connectors or fancy color backgrounds.

LOL

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#5558247 Posted on: 06/18/2018 01:39 PM
Hilbert can you ask AMD what on earth is happening with their drivers for the 2500U and 2700U as we are still using the very first release drivers and it's been nearly 10 months now and there is zero support from either HP/others and AMD they don't even answer their emails, or forums questions too. It is very very frustrating to have a new platform with absolute no support and no one seems to give a fly fk. The platform is broken you have screen corruption and new games won't even run due to the vastly out of date drivers and pressure needs to be applied to AMD and the OEM to get their finger out and do something.

Thanks.

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