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If you are an AMD fan or a user, it looks like you could be in for a treat as the company is making some big improvements in terms of performance and optimizations. While our own testing to evaluate the ray tracing boost rumors ended up delivering more bad than good results, there are several postitive aspects as well.
For example, earlier today, the company released its latest WHQL display driver which promises to fix DirectX 11-based "situational" performance issues affecting both Radeon GPUs and Ryzen processors. Aside from that, more performance improvements and optimizations are coming with the upcoming AMD Ryzen chipset driver as well.
For those not familiar with the matter, back in January, soon after the company had announced its Ryzen 7000X3D series chips, AMD promised to deliver special optimization for the new 3D V-cache CPUs for Windows 11 and Windows 10. This didn't really sound like a hype talk just to get people interested as indeed there were technical reasons why such optimization will have been necessary as it is related to how the V-cache has been implemented in the new 7000X3D chips. With the new WHQL-signed chipset driver version 5.01.29.2026, AMD will deliver the 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver version 1.0.0.7 that is expected to bring the special optimizations to Windows 11 as well as Windows 10.
AMD Software Release Notes ver. 5.01.29.2026
Package Contents and Compatible Operating Systems
This Software package contains various independent drivers (Column 1) designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms (Column 2). Operating System support may vary depending on your specific AMD product
|
Driver Name |
OS Supported |
Supported Version |
|
AMD Processor Power Management Support - AMD Ryzen Power Plan |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
8.0.0.13 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
8.0.0.13 |
|
AMD PCI Device Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.0.90 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.0.0.90 |
|
AMD I2C Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.2.0.120 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.2.0.120 |
|
AMD UART Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.2.0.114 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.2.0.114 |
|
AMD GPIO2 Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
2.2.0.130 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
2.2.0.130 |
|
PT GPIO Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
3.0.0.0 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
3.0.0.0 |
|
AMD PSP Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
5.22.0.0 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
5.22.0.0 |
|
AMD IOV Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.2.0.52 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.2.0.52 |
|
AMD SMBUS Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
5.12.0.38 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
5.12.0.38 |
|
AMD SFH Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.0.332 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.0.0.332 |
|
AMD MicroPEP Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.39.0 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.0.39.0 |
|
AMD Wireless Button Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.0.2 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.0.0.2 |
|
AMD PMF-6000Series Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
22.0.3.0 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
22.0.3.0 |
|
AMD PPM Provisioning File Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
8.0.0.18 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
8.0.0.18 |
|
AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.0.7 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.0.0.7 |
|
AMD AMS Mailbox Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
2.0.0.572 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
2.0.0.572 |
|
AMD S0i3 Filter Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.0.16 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.0.0.16 |
|
AMD USB4 CM Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.0.0.25 |
|
AMD SFH1.1 Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
1.1.0.8 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
1.1.0.8 |
|
AMD PMF-7040Series Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
23.2.2.6 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
23.2.2.6 |
|
AMD Interface Driver |
Windows 10(64-bit) |
2.0.0.9 |
|
|
Windows 11(64-bit) |
2.0.0.9 |
While AMD's website doesn't publicly list these chipset drivers yet, the upcoming driver is beginning to be listed by motherboard partners like ASRock, who has published the driver for its X670E Taichi Carrara flagship motherboard. The AMD 5.01.29.2026 chipset driver is also available on third-party website Station-drivers [do not click if you do not wish to download the driver].
In related news, the Santa Clara company also recently published about high severity security flaw affecting its Ryzen Master software. Hence, Zen CPU users are advised to update to Ryzen Master version 2.10.1.2287.
Via: MoKiChU (Windows 11 Forum) via HXL (Twitter)
AMD Ryzen 5.01.29.2026 chipset driver boosts Windows 11 and 10 performance
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