AMD has confirmed its new Ryzen AI 300 processors They will not be compatible with Windows 10. Customers who want to use Microsoft systems with this type of APU and their subsequent generations will need to upgrade to Windows 11.

AMD’s visit to Computex 2024 was as relevant as we expected. It announced the Zen 5 architecture, along with the desktop and laptop processor lines that will work with it. Although the presentations strongly resonated with the main improvements of the new platforms, such as a 16% increase in IPC and a big jump in AI performance with up to 50 BEST on the NPU side, none of them were said less. about its disadvantages.

And the official specs of the two Ryzen AI SKUs unveiled at Computex They do not include Windows 10 in the list of compatible operating systems:

• Supported OS: Windows 11 – 64-bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-bit, Ubuntu x86 64-bit.

However, the new desktop platform, the Ryzen 9000, which also uses the Zen 5 architecture, will be supported for Windows 10, according to the datasheet:

• Supported OS: Windows 11 – 64-bit Edition, Windows 10 – 64-bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-bit, Ubuntu x86 64-bit.

It basically means that AMD APU Chipset Drivers These will be the ones that are not supported in Windows 10. This confirms (albeit only partially) the information that appeared in Lenovo, which signaled the end of AMD’s support for its new processors in Windows 10.

The arguments for and against are equally compelling.. First, although Copilot was also deployed on Windows 10, Windows 11 is definitely the version that gets the most AI features. Additionally, Windows 10 is 15 months from the end of its lifecycle.

Face it, we have Windows 10 as the desktop king with a market share that more than doubles that of Windows 11, a version that still hasn’t fallen in love. Technically, we see no reason why Ryzen AI 300s are not supported in Windows 10. All this officially, because it does not mean that they do not work in practice.