Friday, September 10th 2021
First AMD Radeon Vega M Drivers for Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK in Over 16 Months Released
Intel and AMD released the first Radeon Software drivers for the exotic Radeon Vega M graphics found in Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK, in over 16 months. The Intel Download Center just added version 21.10.03.11 of Radeon Software for the graphics solution, dated 09/09/2021. The previous drivers dated all the way back to February 2020, and were based on Adrenalin 20.2.
The drivers are based on a release candidate of Adrenalin 21.10, which is 21.10RC1, but does not include the security updates AMD could be bundling with the upcoming 21.10 drivers (October 2021). "Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Driver version 21.10.03.11, which is based on 21.10RC1, does not include the latest functional and security updates. An update is targeted to be released in March of 2022 and will include additional functional and security updates. Customers should update to the latest version as it becomes available," says Intel in the release notes of the drivers. The drivers do include optimization for the latest games, including "Metro Exodus" (DX12), and "Resident Evil Village," besides adding support for Microsoft PlayReady AV1 decode.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Vega M drivers for Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK from Intel
The Radeon Vega M graphics was a unique, one-off collaboration between Intel and AMD, found in special 8th Gen Core SKUs powering the Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK desktops. Codenamed "Kaby Lake-G," the processor+graphics multi-chip module (MCM) packs a 4-core/8-thread CPU based on the "Kaby Lake" microarchitecture, and a discrete GPU die based on the AMD "Vega" graphics architecture, with dedicated 4 GB on-package memory from an HBM stack. The GPU featured 1,280 stream processors across 20 compute units, 72 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 1024-bit HBM interface.
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The drivers are based on a release candidate of Adrenalin 21.10, which is 21.10RC1, but does not include the security updates AMD could be bundling with the upcoming 21.10 drivers (October 2021). "Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Driver version 21.10.03.11, which is based on 21.10RC1, does not include the latest functional and security updates. An update is targeted to be released in March of 2022 and will include additional functional and security updates. Customers should update to the latest version as it becomes available," says Intel in the release notes of the drivers. The drivers do include optimization for the latest games, including "Metro Exodus" (DX12), and "Resident Evil Village," besides adding support for Microsoft PlayReady AV1 decode.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Vega M drivers for Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK from Intel
34 Comments on First AMD Radeon Vega M Drivers for Intel NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK in Over 16 Months Released
Waiting this long for a driver update is unacceptable.
Now they can suffer the terrible AMD drivers on Windows again.
I'm glad the answer to that question was "no, we'll buy a dozen ZBOX" because 16 months is a total farce. Both AMD and Intel should be ashamed of this and the spat over who was responsible for driver support served to make both companies look childish whilst simultaneously sending a big "F*** YOU" message from both companies to the early adopters who supported this venture.
Given that that the GPU didn't perform anywhere near what was promised anyway, I consigned it to the back of a television VESA mount on a trolley and use it solely for Powerpoint and PDF presentations where the Microsoft Basic Display driver is more than adequate.
Intel are too big and too complacent to care about user experience, especially gamers who aren't relevant to their beancounters like datacenter customers are.
Man, I hope I'm wrong; The NV/AMD duopoly is really stale.
AMD's share of the blame is that adding yet-another-Vega iteration into their Adrenaline drivers would have been child's play (they have drivers for Vega as datacentre accelerators, two generations of dGPUs, three generations of APU, and untold embedded/custom designs on top of that)
AMD intentionally withheld driver support to leave us consumers high-and-dry just to make a point to Intel.
A point that Intel clearly didn't care about.
For AMD not to come out of this looking bad, perhaps they could have accepted Intel weren't going to do anything and mitigated the damage/offered a goodwill gesture to customers - even used that as a promotion; "Hey, you bought this Intel CPU and Intel are being jerks. We're not jerks, here's some free software support to ease your suffering because AMD are the good guys; Next time you buy a CPU remember we've got your back."
But no. AMD's marketing department has and always will be a shitshow. The golden opportunity was wasted and once again AMD's marketing department managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The reason the drivers took 16months to be updated is clear, there isn't a large product line-up and thus the need for updates is not as great.
They should be hyper-aware of how this looks to gamers, but their arrogance will blind them to that like the 14nm++++++++++++++++++++++ wankery.
Not sure where your complaints are from or about, but they seem more than just a little meritless. Unless you've got an example?