AMD releases new Windows 11/10 chipset driver for Ryzen 9000, 8000, 7000, 5000, 3000, more

Today, AMD has released a new chipset driver, version 6.10.17.

152. The major highlight of the release is the addition of Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack compatibility support for several of the chipset components as the respective driver executables have now been marked with Microsoft's "/CETCOMPAT" linker. For those who may not be familiar with it, Microsoft introduced CETCOMPAT to indicate compatibility with CET.



It essentially brings hardware-enforced stack protection to protect against control flow hijacking and it was on when it was first debuted. CET introduces Shadow Stack and Indirect Branch Targeting (IBT) features. The former helps defend a system against Return Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks while the latter protects against Call or Jump Oriented Programming (COP/JOP) attacks.

CET is able to do so by checking the normal program stack against a hardware-stored copy (the Shadow Stack) to ensure that the integrity of return addresses is maintained. In simple words, Shadow Stack stops malware from taking over the process steps of legitimate software as it flags potentially compromised software from executing. AMD Ryzen CPUs since Zen 3 or Ryzen 5000 series have supported the Shadow Stack feature.

Thus, newer Ryzen 6000 (Zen 3+), Ryzen 7000 (Zen 4) and Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) are also compatible. Meanwhile, to guard against indirect branch target injection attacks, AMD CPUs support Indirect branch prediction barrier (IBPB), Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS), and Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictor (STIBP). On Windows, the company typically recommends using IBPB.

Aside from CET support, the new chipset update also brings several bug fixes and new device ID additions. Sadly, AMD has not been able to resolve the failed uninstallation bug as it still remains in the known issues section. The Ryzen ppkg (provisioning package) install/upgrade bug persists as well.

The full changelog is given below: New program support added. The full breakdown of the changes in the various chipset components is given in the table below. Some of the drivers like Ryzen power plans and PCI device driver, among others, have not seen any change.

Others like Micro PEP (Platform Extension Plug-in), PMF (Platform Management Framework), I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), and UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter), have all received CETCOMPAT support. AMD Ryzen Power Plan / AMD Processor Power Management Support 8.0.

0.13 8.0.

0.13 No change AMD PCI Device Driver 1.0.

0.90 1.0.

0.90 No change AMD I2C Driver 1.2.

0.126 1.2.

0.126 CETCOMPAT support added AMD UART Driver 1.2.

0.119 1.2.

0.119 CETCOMPAT support added AMD GPIO2 Driver 2.2.

0.134 2.2.

0.134 CETCOMPAT support added PT GPIO Driver 3.0.

3.0 3.0.

3.0 CETCOMPAT support added AMD PSP Driver 5.34.

0.0 5.33.

0.0 AMD IOV Driver 1.2.

0.52 Not Applicable No change AMD SMBUS Driver 5.12.

0.44 5.12.

0.44 No change AMD AS4 ACPI Driver 1.2.

0.46 Not Applicable No change AMD SFH I2C Driver 1.0.

0.86 1.0.

0.86 No change AMD USB Filter Driver 2.1.

11.304 Not Applicable No change AMD SFH Driver 1.0.

0.341 1.0.

0.341 Bug Fixes AMD CIR Driver 3.2.

4.135 Not Applicable No change AMD MicroPEP Driver 1.0.

44.0 1.0.

44.0 Bug Fixes AMD Wireless Button Driver 1.0.

0.6 1.0.

0.6 CETCOMPAT support added AMD PMF-6000 Series Driver 24.0.

5.0 24.0.

5.0 CETCOMPAT support added AMD PPM Provisioning File Driver 8.0.

0.45 8.0.

0.45 New program support added AMD USB4 CM Driver 1.0.

0.42 Not Applicable Bug fixes AMD AMS Mailbox Driver 4.0.

0.833 4.0.

0.833 Bug Fixes AMD S0i3 Filter Driver 1.0.

0.22 1.0.

0.20 No change AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver 1.0.

0.9 1.0.

0.9 No change AMD SFH1.1 Driver 1.

1.0.22 1.

1.0.22 Bug Fixes AMD PMF-7040 Series Driver 24.

2.5.0 24.

2.5.0 CETCOMPAT support added AMD Interface Driver (AMD PCI, AMD SMBuS, AMD Hetero, AMD RCEC) 2.

0.0.21 2.

0.0.21 New Device IDs added AMD PMF-7736 Series Driver Not Applicable 24.

1.20.0 CETCOMPAT support added AMD PMF-8000Series Driver 23.

5.16.0 24.

5.16.0 CETCOMPAT support added AMD Provisioning for OEM 1.

0.0.6 1.

0.0.6 No change AMD PMF Ryzen AI 300 Series Driver 1 Not Applicable 24.

6.21.0 CETCOMPAT support added You can download the on AMD's official website.

Do note that the driver no longer of AMD mobile chips..