AMD confirms: Ryzen does not support Windows 7 – ITavisen.en

do you Want the latest, you will need to upgrade.

Ryzen is amd’s upcoming prosessorserie where the company goes in the throat on Intel and Kaby Lake.

Windows 10
While the latter does not support anything other than Windows 10 on the Windows platform, there were perhaps some who had hopes that AMD would facilitate them with the older OS versions. So, it is not.

AMD confirms that they have tested Ryzen in Windows 7, but that they will not support the os officially.

“to achieve the highest performance possible with our AMD Ryzen processors, have AMD considered two OS generations: Windows 7 and 10. But only support and drivers for Windows 10 will be delivered to AMD Ryzen-prosessorenes produksjonsdeler”, called it in a statement from the company.

Dedicated game mode
Microsoft has shown an increased focus on PC games with Windows 10. Among other things, with DirectX 12 and upcoming “Game Mode” which is a dedicated game mode for the operating system.

According to figures from Netmarketshare, Windows 7 still the largest PC platform with 47,2 per cent of the market. The players see the dog out to prefer Windows 10, the OS has just under 50 per cent of the market share on Steam.

it Is also disappointing that both AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake is available only for Windows 10? You are going to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest to make use of the fresh processors?

Source:
PC World