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The original was posted on /r/amdlaptops by /u/isthmusofkra on 2023-09-04 08:22:56.

For your chipset and graphics drivers, do you install the ones provided by the OEM, or do you go directly to AMD?

While OEM drivers are rarely updated, I’ve read anecdotes online of people claiming reference drivers were more unstable and resulted in higher power consumption (and in turn, poorer battery life) in their system. This is more prominent in ASUS ROG laptops, it seems.

On the other hand, there are others who claim that OEMs don’t customize their drivers at all, and the warnings provided by AMD when you download drivers directly from them are just to absolve them of any accountability, if anything goes wrong.

Does anyone have definitive proof that OEMs actually fine tune the drivers for our devices? I, for one, have noticed that some driver versions found in the OEM website were never released by AMD, which lends credence to this theory. But for all I know, they may simply be testing it for that specific model and giving it a custom version number for the specific hardware ID, with no real fine-tuning involved.

Thanks in advance!