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
Intel Xe drivers still have more crash/graphics artifact issues caused by drivers than AMD and Nvidia drivers combined.
You do understand we're talking specifically about graphics drivers, right? There's a reason AMD and Nvidia release drivers very regularly and it's not about stability of the drivers, its about compatibility and optimisations for games.
Not just slow but full of glitches. I'm not sure Intel will have as low issues as AMD/Nvidia when its GPU has more performance.
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Nvidia and AMD are obviously far bigger in the space of graphics drivers. Intel is just small and the part that really needs optimisations are too little. Their hardware is indeed as it is, reasonable simple to program, but compared with a Nvidia or AMD card it's a different beast. Both compete for having the best FPS / quality, and updating drivers frequently for this purpose is required.
In this case the Vega M it's a AMD chip and since it's a Intel CPU or Intel product Intel is the responsible party to provide a driver. Not AMD. Yes AMD does provide a driver but it's intel who needs to push it out.
And yes, I googled it. No results relevant to this discussion.In the same statement you mention RE2Remake, you then show a video of RE3. And BTW, that video is showing the game failing to run properly on a Core-i3 based system. That is not a driver problem, that is the GAME not being properly coded to run on the target hardware. Yeah, that's a thing. Even if you base a game on DirectX you still have to compile code for specific hardware.Yup, sure. Got pictures?
Folks you're failing to do anything but prove the point above about the whining. What you have succeeded in doing is to prove how easily misunderstood problems can be which is itself a distinct level of amusing.
How would AMD issue a driver for an Intel SOC on AMD website, ensuring full compatibility for everything that's going on in an Intel NUC? Your comment is as cynical as they come. What a joke.
The only way AMD can have any blame on this is if Intel repeatedly asked for a driver update, providing all the support for AMD to be able to deliver a compatible driver, and yet AMD dragged their feet to do their job. Any indication of such development? No? OK then.
I'm actually really excited to see a third competitor in the GPU space. If Intel GPU offerings are competitive I would have no reservation buying.
While Intel had no intension of providing further driver updates.
AMD did the right thing here and provide driver support to which "technically isn't their own product"
Yet someone blames AMD for this?
Don't you think a little bit odd going to AMD.com to download a driver for an Intel product?