strange graphic card
strange graphic card
Hi
I own an ASUS R542bp laptop with an AMD A6-9220 APU.
When the graphics driver 17.7 is installed, the card named R5 m420 shows up in Device Manager.
But after installing the latest driver compatible with this APU (22.6.1), its name changes to HD 8500m!
😳
Why does this occur?
Both drivers don’t offer a way to switch the graphics card.
Can I change it to R5 m420 (or HD 8500hd)? Is this possible?
8550M might appear since it's a GCN 1st gen model running on comparable hardware. R5-M420 is another GCN 1st gen item, offering marginally fewer cores but faster clock speeds. Their performance is nearly identical, and the driver should look almost the same. Both are quite budget-friendly systems, so the details likely don't matter much. The R5-M420 was released three years ago but remains essentially the same as the older HD8000 mobile lineup.
There is no way to change the switch in its driver, whether version 17.7 or 22.6.1.
I looked into Dxdiag and found something in the render section: device type is render-only display device.
This means R5 m420 is designed only for rendering, which helps the CPU and R4 graphic to run faster.