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I think it means "Don't use an Intel AX201 Wifi Card because that needs an Intel CPU" without mentioning Intel.
by Bairfhionn 3y ago
I think it means "Don't use an Intel AX201 Wifi Card because that needs an Intel CPU" without mentioning Intel.
- segasaturn 3y agoI've used Intel AX cards on Ryzen (desktop) boards and it worked fine, you just need to install drivers via Windows Update.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoThat's not true though, is it? Have an AX200 series wifi chip on an AM4 Motherboard, works well.
- kitsunesoba 3y agoUsing AX2XX on my Ryzen desktop too, works great. As far as I know that series of chipsets is one of the best available for Wifi/BT cards.
- eightysixfour 3y agoThe *1’s use CPU offloading and only support Intel CPUs. The *0’s don’t.
- Bairfhionn 3y agoAX201 only works with intel. AX200 should work in the AMD Framework as well. Edit: Info from Intel itself https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000054819/wireless.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
- codedokode 3y agoWhy does it work only with Intel? Isn't WiFi card just an ordinary PCI-Express device?
- detaro 3y ago> that the Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 is a CRF module that uses the Intel proprietary interface clearly not.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoSome Intel cards offload work onto the CPU (or mobo?)
- Bairfhionn 3y agoI think both. Chipset and CPU.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoFascinating, the specs seem identical apart from the different interface. I wonder what's the purpose/advantage of the AX201.
- stirlo 3y agoThe 2x1 wifi card are intel specific while the 2x0 cards are CPU agnostic. As long as you have a card model ending in 0 you're fine to use any CPU. As for why they did it I'd assume its slightly cheaper to build a 2x1 chip than a 2x0 as offloading the functions to the CPU would mean less components on the card itself. When you're selling 100s of millions of them every little bit counts.