Question Adrenalin drivers if I have a 5600G + 5000 series GPU? What do I install?

King_V

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So, I'm actually kind of surprised this never occurred to me before now, except, now, okay, I have this system I need to straighten out with drivers.

I know that with Adrenalin drivers, there's a Polaris/Vega version that can be download and installed, and an RDNA version that can be downloaded and installed. Except, given that the iGPU of the 5600G is Vega-based, and the discrete GPU I'll be using is RDNA-based, what do I do? Is there a way to get GPU driver support for both at the same time?

It's a test-bed system, so I'll be swapping GPUs here and there, most likely RDNA-based cards, but I'd like to be able to run GPU-less at times as well. At the moment, I have no discrete GPU installed, and have the Polaris/Vega drivers installed to run off the iGPU. Just want to get my ducks in a row before going for the GPU/other driver(?) install.
 

Lutfij

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I went looking and came back with these;
https://www.amd.com/en/support/down...yzen/ryzen-5000-series/amd-ryzen-5-5600g.html
is version 24.9.1 while
https://www.amd.com/en/support/down...eon-rx-5000-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt.html
is version 24.10.1

yes there is a difference in their package. If I were to do benchmarking, I'd run DDU to remove all AMD drivers, then reinstall the latest AMD GPU driver for the discrete card that you might drop into the slot. Reason being is because the APU and the discrete GPU are two different internal architectures as such their instruction sets via drivers packages will be different. Since you have the APU to begin with and need the display output, you have to go with Adrenaline 24.9.1 linked above. When the discrete card shows up, DDU>latest driver from GPU chip maker's support site, in an elevated command.

My 2 cents on the matter.
 
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So, I'm actually kind of surprised this never occurred to me before now, except, now, okay, I have this system I need to straighten out with drivers.

I know that with Adrenalin drivers, there's a Polaris/Vega version that can be download and installed, and an RDNA version that can be downloaded and installed. Except, given that the iGPU of the 5600G is Vega-based, and the discrete GPU I'll be using is RDNA-based, what do I do? Is there a way to get GPU driver support for both at the same time?

It's a test-bed system, so I'll be swapping GPUs here and there, most likely RDNA-based cards, but I'd like to be able to run GPU-less at times as well. At the moment, I have no discrete GPU installed, and have the Polaris/Vega drivers installed to run off the iGPU. Just want to get my ducks in a row before going for the GPU/other driver(?) install.
Drivers for IGPU are different from dedicated GPUs, At AMD drivers site look for processor drivers.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html