The latest AMD GPU drivers can limit the VRAM to 512 MB on AYANEO consoles with Ryzen 6800U

The AYANEO 2 and AYANEO GEEK handheld consoles are equipped with the Ryzen 7 6800U APU with Zen3+ and RDNA2 architecture. This powerful low-power processor was a trigger for the growing popularity of such products, and the upcoming Ryzen 7040 series should be just as interesting. And now there are unexpected problems.

A new driver for its Radeon GPUs has been released by AMD. This supports the Radeon 6000 and 7000 GPUs. It also supports mobile Radeon 6000M/5000M series and Radeon 600M GPUs integrated into Ryzen APUs. With the latest drivers, the AMD Radeon 680M, which uses either 3 GB or 6 GB of VRAM (shared with system memory), is limited to just 512 MB. The company has stated that this is a bug in the driver and the only known permanent solution is to update the BIOS. Otherwise, users are asked not to reset the driver to factory settings to maintain the original VRAM capacity.

If such problems occur, a BIOS upgrade is necessary. The company provides detailed instructions for this problem, but the risk of doing something wrong is always high. It’s not clear how widespread the problem is, but the company is confident that the AYANEO 2021, AIR and NEXT models are not affected. All these products are based on Ryzen 5000 and older APUs.

Source: AYANEO