NPU Not Detected foundry model list Only Shows CPU Models

[DavidLuong98]

I’m on Windows using the recommended installer. I have an NPU‑equipped device, but when I run:

foundry model list
every model is listed as CPU‑only. Nothing shows up as NPU/DML‑accelerated.

PS C:\Users\luongdavid> foundry model list
Alias                          Device     Task           File Size    License      Model ID
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phi-4                          CPU        chat           10.16 GB     MIT          Phi-4-generic-cpu:1
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phi-3.5-mini                   CPU        chat           2.53 GB      MIT          Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-generic-cpu:1
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phi-3-mini-128k                CPU        chat           2.54 GB      MIT          Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct-generic-cpu:2
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phi-3-mini-4k                  CPU        chat           2.53 GB      MIT          Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-generic-cpu:2
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mistral-7b-v0.2                CPU        chat           4.07 GB      apache-2.0   mistralai-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0-2-generic-cpu:2
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deepseek-r1-14b                CPU        chat           11.51 GB     MIT          deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-generic-cpu:3
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deepseek-r1-7b                 CPU        chat           6.43 GB      MIT          deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b-generic-cpu:3
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qwen2.5-coder-0.5b             CPU        chat, tools    0.80 GB      apache-2.0   qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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phi-4-mini-reasoning           CPU        chat           4.52 GB      MIT          Phi-4-mini-reasoning-generic-cpu:3
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qwen2.5-0.5b                   CPU        chat, tools    0.80 GB      apache-2.0   qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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qwen2.5-1.5b                   CPU        chat, tools    1.78 GB      apache-2.0   qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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qwen2.5-coder-1.5b             CPU        chat, tools    1.78 GB      apache-2.0   qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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phi-4-mini                     CPU        chat, tools    4.80 GB      MIT          Phi-4-mini-instruct-generic-cpu:5
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qwen2.5-14b                    CPU        chat, tools    11.06 GB     apache-2.0   qwen2.5-14b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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qwen2.5-coder-14b              CPU        chat, tools    11.06 GB     apache-2.0   qwen2.5-coder-14b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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qwen2.5-coder-7b               CPU        chat, tools    6.16 GB      apache-2.0   qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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qwen2.5-7b                     CPU        chat, tools    6.16 GB      apache-2.0   qwen2.5-7b-instruct-generic-cpu:4
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gpt-oss-20b                    CPU        chat           12.26 GB     MIT          gpt-oss-20b-generic-cpu:1
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qwen3-0.6b                     CPU        chat, tools    0.58 GB      apache-2.0   qwen3-0.6b-generic-cpu:3

Environment
I am on a 24H2, following these steps : #510 (comment)
Foundry Local version: 0.8.119

Hardware:
NPU:

Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E78100 - Qualcomm(R) Hexagon(TM) NPU
Driver version:	30.0.220.3000
Driver date:	1/8/2026

I did run Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers "*.EP.*" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty PackageFullName
I do have 4 qnn providers present.

Note : I am internal msft and self hosting internal branches.