If you are unsure how to create and perform a Windows system restore, we have a separate article to perform system restore. Having a prior system restore point will revert your CPU updates to the ones before the new drivers were installed. In the event that something goes wrong during your CPU driver update, your PC might not be able to boot up as usual. Please ensure that before you start downloading or installing new CPU drivers, always backup your most important system files and operating system. In this article we will look at ways to update your CPU drivers.

Having the latest CPU drivers is a crucial step toward getting the best performance for your CPU. You would think an infinite number of monkeys could come up with better drivers.Your CPU, just like any other hardware component, comes with its own set of drivers that let it interface and interact with your operating system. I find all this particular bizarre considering the number of job posts Apple have and do post for Mac graphics driver developers. There is nothing forcing Apple to (fully) support cards they never sold or shipped but it is annoying, especially if it is an AMD card for which there are no alternative AMD drivers. This is despite the fact the cards can do these functions and even do it in a Mac when running Windows via Boot Camp. Furthermore sometimes Apple also wilfully omit certain features that certain video cards/chips are capable of, for example Apple do not support audio over HDMI on some Mac Pro PCIe video cards, and Apple also do not support 30bit color aka 'deep color' on some video cards/chips. There is a fairly widely held opinion that Apple's drivers while they work are mediocre in terms of performance as a result the Nvidia drivers for the Mac are considered superior to Apple's own drivers. In fact Nvidia also makes drivers for some cards Apple do not themselves support e.g. Nvidia however does also write their own Mac drivers.

These might get updated when Apple update the operating system.ĪMD and Intel do not themselves write drivers for the Mac video chips even if they make the actual chips. The drivers for AMD, Nvidia, and Intel video chips - at least those used/supplied/supported by Apple are written by Apple and included in the Mac operating system.

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