AMD Raven Ridge APUs get 3-monthly updates and nothing more

Posted on Monday, June 18 2018 @ 9:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Over at the OCUK forums, an AMD employee confirmed that Raven Ridge will receive driver updates every 3 months.

Basically, AMD's APUs are updated every 3 months as WHQL releases only, whereas the firm's discrete graphics card often receive multiple driver updates per month. Obviously, this is not ideal for gamers as this leaves a lot of room between a game's release date and the time AMD provides performance optimizations and/or bug fixes.

This also leads to a somewhat funny situation. A couple of days ago, Intel rolled out driver version 18.6.1 for its Kaby Lake-G processor with the Radeon RX Vega M integrated graphics. Meanwhile, AMD's own APUs are still stuck with 18.5.1.

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