{"id":137716,"date":"2022-04-04T22:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/amd-radeon-software-reportedly-alters-cpu-settings-without-user-knowledge"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:02:49","slug":"amd-radeon-software-reportedly-alters-cpu-settings-without-user-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/amd-radeon-software-reportedly-alters-cpu-settings-without-user-knowledge","title":{"rendered":"AMD Radeon Software Reportedly Alters CPU Settings Without User Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amd-radeon-software-reportedly-alters-cpu-settings-without-user-knowledge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adrenalin drivers seemingly go haywire.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>German publication <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.igorslab.de\/en\/can-traces-of-ryzen-master-contain-alter-graphics-card-driver-secret-bios-settings-of-cpu\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.igorslab.de\/en\/can-traces-of-ryzen-master-contain-alter-graphics-card-driver-secret-bios-settings-of-cpu\/\">Igor\u2019s Lab<\/a> investigated a potential abnormality surrounding AMD\u2019s Adrenalin GPU software. The current speculation is that the integration of AMD\u2019s Ryzen Master module into the Adrenalin version 22.3.1 software or later has inadvertently allowed the program to manipulate CPU PBO and Precision Boost settings without the user\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Amd\/comments\/tv674h\/may_contain_traces_of_ryzen_master_does_the\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Amd\/comments\/tv674h\/may_contain_traces_of_ryzen_master_does_the\">user feedback<\/a>, the problem occurs only with AMD CPU and GPU combinations since that hardware supports the Ryzen Master SDK. So if you are running a system that has either an Intel CPU paired to a Radeon GPU, or a Ryzen CPU paired to an Nvidia GPU, you will not encounter this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrenalin drivers seemingly go haywire. German publication Igor\u2019s Lab investigated a potential abnormality surrounding AMD\u2019s Adrenalin GPU software. The current speculation is that the integration of AMD\u2019s Ryzen Master module into the Adrenalin version 22.3.1 software or later has inadvertently allowed the program to manipulate CPU PBO and Precision Boost settings without the user\u2019s permission. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}