Much thanx for the info & how-to! Yup, that must be it. I have the OEM / Framework provided Adrenaline driver ending w/ .280 installed.
Pretty newly installed system. Things are working well. After 35~ish years of ‘futzing’ with DOS, OS/2, Win, NT then Win again [never really took to Linux beyond that of a user] and for a while pretty good at it and always found where the bodies were buried, I just want things to work these days. LOL.
I really should backup my system as a baseline before I proceed with this. 
But thinking I may throw caution to the wind and just upgrade the driver-only with the existing software in place and see if the magic blue smoke that makes things work gets released. 
EDIT: Well, it didn’t immediately start smoking. But even with driver ending in .314 not seeing the NPU utilized. So I think I’ll need to follow your instructions fully.