2012-09-25, 08:36 | Link #1 |
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AMD Radeon 6470M become 7400M
for some reason, after update my catalyst driver to 12.8. on dxdiag, catalyst hardware information and PC Wizard, my laptop's AMD Radeon 6470M 1GB suddenly become AMD Radeon 7400M 2GB. can anyone please explain?
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2012-09-25, 12:33 | Link #2 |
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Now that's some "hardware upgrade" you got there. What's your laptop make and model, plus Windows version? I think you also have to grab updated/customized/optimized Catalyst display drivers from your laptop's manufacturer, due to their specialized configurations (as opposed to video cards that use standard-issue Catalyst drivers).
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2012-09-27, 09:50 | Link #4 | |
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I'd have to say that the driver installation program has probably gotten confused since (as has already been said) the 7400M is just a rebranded 6470M and has set it up to display the information of the newer card. |
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2012-09-27, 15:04 | Link #5 |
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I looked through the compatiblilty list for AMD catalyst 12.8 and the Radeon HD 6470M is not listed (nor 64xx wildcards that cover it). That may explain why the driver seemingly "rebranded" your GPU.
Like sa547 said, it's best to use drivers from the manufacturer to minimize any issues. Though getting features associated with later drivers may take a while or may even never arrive at all. |
2012-09-28, 08:34 | Link #6 |
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Unfortunately, going to the manufacturers website for driver updates isn't the best thing since most of the time they never update the GPU driver the computer/laptop (when I look at the driver download section for my laptop, the VGA driver listed as the latest is from over two years ago).
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2012-09-28, 09:25 | Link #7 | |
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Once, under time pressure from a short-fused customer (what an asshole, really) who wanted to play MW3, I tried to upgrade the GPU driver for an Acer laptop by downloading recent mobile versions from nVidia (which should work with most laptops), but it got worse with the lappy suddenly gone slow as molasses, so I was forced to uninstall, and use Acer's older OEM configuration instead.
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2012-09-28, 18:48 | Link #8 | |
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I noticed when I first played MW3 on my laptop (Intel HD Graphics 3000 + Nvidia Geforce GT 540M), it defaulted to the Intel integrated graphics. I had to create a profile in the Nvidia control panel to force it to use the Geforce card.
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2012-09-29, 00:58 | Link #9 | |
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2012-09-29, 03:40 | Link #10 |
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yeah, after I play some game i realized that the "7400M" 12.8 driver that i downloaded make some game slowed down massively (60 -> 45 FPS) I decided to go to manufacturer website to downloaded the driver for my laptop, it seem like they also have their own 12.8 driver. after installed it, not only did it revert my GPU back to 6470M, it also boost speed for several game compared to my default driver.
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