VTune Profiler cannot recognize the processor (i5-10600K)

[quadrupoletensor]

Hello, I am trying to use VTune to profile an application running on windows on a machine with an i5-10600K processor. VTune reports that all capabilities are "not applicable to the system because VTune cannot recognize the processor" which seems strange for a relatively recent CPU. The sampling driver appears to be installed and working. Attached are a variety of logs from command line tests and the vtune checker output that I saw requested in other threads where people had this issue. Thanks

[Vladimir_T_Intel]

It's strange that context value list could not define CPU:

platformType: 0
CPU_NAME: Unknown

How the processor is defined by Windows system (cmd.exe: systeminfo)?

[quadrupoletensor]

It looks fine, the CPU is recognized there:

Processor(s):              1 Processor(s) Installed.
                           [01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel ~4104 Mhz

See attached for the rest (XXXs are manual redactions, their values were fine)

[Deva1]

Facing the same issue on i3-10110U running Ubuntu 22.04.05

[e87tn95h]

Apparently, VTune 2025.4 (included in the Intel Software Developer Tools 2025.2 release) has removed the names of several legacy microarchitectures. These include:

• Client CPU: Haswell, Crystalwell, Broadwell, Skylake (and some successors up to the 10th Generation Core Processors)
• Server CPU: Haswell, Broadwell, KNL, Skylake, Cascadelake
• Low Power CPU: Silvermont, Airmont, Goldmont/-Plus, Elkhartlake

I sincerely hope this is an oversight rather than an intentional change.

[quadrupoletensor]

I certainly hope so as well, to not support CPUs as recent as 10th generation in their own vendor profiling tools is unacceptable if prior versions of the software are not going to be made available.

[quadrupoletensor]

Where did you see this? I can't even find VTune 2025.4 system requirements documentation, the latest version online is 2025.1 (labeled "latest") updated only 5 months ago (2/27/2025) that says:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/system-requirements/vtune-profiler/2025-1.html

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Client CPUs: Intel® Core™ 4th generation processors and newer families. 

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It would be very surprising if they deprecated all client CPUs of generation 4-10 all since then without providing any prior versions that support them since this is still ubiquitous hardware

[e87tn95h]

For the time being, we (you and me) can still access past oneAPI Base toolkit releases from the following webpage:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/base-toolkit-download.html

I realized this fact after comparing the installation contents of versions 2025.1.3 and 2025.2.0 about VTune. Specifically, I noticed that certain components present in version 2025.1.3 were no longer included in version 2025.2.0.

Moreover, the documentation you mentioned has been revised recently. It makes me wonder whether the removal was in fact planned as part of the major release.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/system-requirements/vtune-profiler/2025-1.html

Client CPUs: Intel® Core™ processors based on Ice Lake and newer families.

[quadrupoletensor]

Thanks, I'm up and running with an older version. Strange that there's no option to download those VTune versions directly, I never would have thought to look at the whole oneAPI toolkit since I don't need any of those other tools.

[Deva1]

+1