How to get hold of AMD's drivers for Ryzen laptops for best performance

Whether you just bought a laptop with an AMD Ryzen APU inside or you've had one for a while, you may be missing out on better graphics performance. Here's what you need to know and how you make sure you're getting the best from your laptop's integrated GPU.

Products used in this guide

Affordable Ryzen laptop: Huawei MateBook D ($597 at Amazon)
A little background...



When AMD initially released the Ryzen APUs for laptops, it failed to also offer a direct method of downloading the latest drivers. Instead, you had to rely on a combination of Microsoft and your laptop manufacturer to ensure you had the latest releases.

When that happens, there's no guarantee your laptop will be completely up to date, nor is there any guarantee that the various laptop makers will be speedy at pushing them out. It was, frankly, messy. It also meant there wer esome missing features in the Radeon software.

Thankfully, AMD eventually rectified this, improving overall performance at the same time, but c...