Intel moves 6th Gen to 10th Gen iGPUs to ‘legacy support’

Intel’s latest graphics driver update brings important changes to GPU support. This week, it was confirmed that Intel’s 6th Gen, 7th Gen, 8th Gen, 9th Gen and 10th Gen integrated graphics products will be moved on from active support to legacy support. 

Moving on to legacy support doesn’t mean zero future updates for these iGPUs. However, it does mean that Intel won’t be doing much more outside of fixing security issues and critical bugs. Speaking of bugs, the latest Intel Graphics Driver also fixes some problems with these iGPU models, including error messages and crashes in Call of Duty: Vanguard and Watch Dogs Legion. An issue with Intel NUCPA11 and Intel NUC11TN mini PCs going into sleep mode when trying to shutdown has also been addressed.

The complete list of platforms moving to legacy support is the following:

• 6th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Skylake) (1903-21H1)
• 7th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Kaby Lake) (1903-21H1)
• 8th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Kaby Lake-R, Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake) (1903+)
• 9th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Coffee Lake-R) (1903+)
• 10th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Comet Lake, Amber Lake, Ice Lake) (1903+)
• Intel Core Processor with Intel Hybrid Technology (Codename Lakefield) (1909+)
• Intel Atom, Pentium and Celeron processor family (Codename Apollo Lake, Elkhart Lake) (1809+)
• Intel Pentium and Celeron processor family (Codename Gemini Lake, Jasper Lake) (1903-21H1, 1909+)

With these GPUs now considered legacy, Intel's main branch will only cover the 11th and 12th Gen Intel Core processors and the Intel Iris Xe Dedicated Graphics family (DG1).

KitGuru says: Considering the 6th Gen Core CPUs are six years old, putting their iGPUs in legacy mode is understandable. However, the same can't be said for the 10th Gen Core chips, which are just turning two years old. 

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