Official AMD Phoenix Drivers Documented in Adrenalin 23.7.2 Notes

[T0@st]

RubyRapids and westlake tipped off VideoCardz to the presence of interesting information sitting within the latest AMD Adrenalin update notes—its integrated driver compatibility list has been expanded with the addition of a mobile-oriented iGPU Radeon 700M family (780M, 760M and 740M). It seems that Team Red's Phoenix series will be included in the main branch, and not be limited to OEM distribution for software improvements. A public driver release schedule for the Radeon 700M series will provide gamers with access to official updates through normal channels, with the benefit of—hopefully—no major delays.

VideoCardz reckons that an integration into the main branch means: "that whether the GPU being updated relies on RDNA3 in a discrete GPU or as an integrated solution, it will be fully supported through one package. The latest 23.7.2 driver now supports Radeon 7000 desktop and mobile, AMD Ryzen 7045 Dragon Range, Ryzen 7040U and Ryzen 7040HS series." The ASUS ROG Ally's Ryzen Z1 series seems to be the exception, since AMD has not included these APUs in the latest list of supported devices. Folks who have pored over the document have discovered up to "517 devices listed on the hardware support list, including PCI Device IDs and sub-IDs." Many Phoenix APU models are seemingly destined for fitting in a wide variety of laptops and (very likely handheld) gaming consoles. A mysterious model—Ryzen 7 7840S—was also spotted. This looks to be a Lenovo-specific 8-core Ryzen processor based on Phoenix silicon—ITHome believes that it utilizes a customized FP8 package.



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Given that the Z1 Extreme is targeted/marketed at handhelds directly and is said to have some minor adjustments over the same spec 7000 APU, I'm not surprised it wasn't included in the list. I'm guessing here, but i figure there is some additional sauce that a manufacturer might want added, for better or worse, to fit their hardware better.

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/ryzen-z1

 

[Assimilator]

I'm guessing here, but i figure there is some additional sauce that a manufacturer might want added, for better or worse, to fit their hardware better.

AKA, ASUS will get bored of supporting it and you'll never have any driver updates again after the first year or so.

 

[Space Lynx]

AKA, ASUS will get bored of supporting it and you'll never have any driver updates again after the first year or so.

yeah their Zenfone owners can tell you that first hand. ASUS only supports things while there is hype around it, in two years it will dead. my steam deck support however will be around a decade or two, i'd bet money on it.

 

[JoeTheDestroyer]

Good to hear.

I just got an UM790 Pro to use as an htpc, and was shocked I couldn't get drivers from amd. Instead I had to get them from the oem, Minisforum, which if you can believe it, asked me to download their driver package via Mediafire. It doesn't even have a regular installer, but rather uses batch files.

AFAIK, oem drivers for nvidia mobile hardware hasn't been a thing (a requirement, atleast) for over a decade.