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The power plan gives you the option to make your Ryzen CPU run in high performance mode or balanced mode.

Keeping your chipset drivers updated is much more important, as are up-to-date graphics drivers if you have a dedicated graphics card.ĪMD’s newer chipset drivers include a neat feature called AMD Ryzen Power Plans. While there’s some rationality behind installing CPU drivers when your processor has integrated graphics, it’s far from necessary. Though since this is almost always paired with a dedicated graphics card, again, it’s not something you need to really concern yourself with. Generally, if you are running with a higher-end AMD CPU, like a Ryzen 5 5600X and up, you don’t need to install any drivers because those processors do not have onboard graphics.įor Intel users, this is a bit more confusing because even the highest-end of CPUs offer onboard graphics, like the Intel Core i9-12900K, which features Intel UHD Graphics 770. AMD, on the other hand, has its Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) chips, which also have onboard graphics, but those are restricted to the G-series of chips. For example, there are two Core i9 CPUs, i9-12900KF and the i9-12900K, but the difference here is the K model features onboard graphics whereas the KF model does not. Intel’s latest 12th generation of CPUs features onboard graphics as long as they don’t have an “F” designation at the end of the model name. Processors that have onboard graphics utilize drivers to render your desktop and any games you play. Some CPUs can have onboard graphics drivers associated with them, but the processor itself does not need drivers. Your system does need to install its chipset drivers - related to the motherboard - in order to integrate all the components together and use all of your system’s features. CPUs don’t have drivers and don’t need them to run.