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It seems even less bad imho, it's probably that all cards with an AMD reference design will get an update. But vendors with vendor-specific hardware might not p
by jensnockert 14y ago
It seems even less bad imho, it's probably that all cards with an AMD reference design will get an update. But vendors with vendor-specific hardware might not provide an updated BIOS that works with those cards?
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- stephengillie 14y agoThat's probably exactly it - ATI has usually used Sapphire to make their reference cards and ATI-manufactured cards. Many vendors make specific changes to the bios, use out-of-spec or pre-overclocked parts, etc. To put this situation in better perspective: If Intel made bioses in addition to their current products, and they released a bios update for their motherboards (with Intel bios and Intel parts). Here, he's mad because he has an Asus motherboard with an Intel bios, and since Asus isn't releasing this bios update, he won't benefit.
- pwny 14y agoThanks for the clarification, I own a 7970 and the article kind of disturbed me. I hadn't thought about the fact that AMD isn't the only one to use the GPUs. The fact of the matter is (for me at least) that I paid for the 7970 as it was on paper when I bought it. Of course I'd be mad if performance on it was artificially lowered, then members of the press were given a new BIOS to restore it to normal but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here at all.
- danudey 14y agoThere are pretty direct parallels here to Android phones. If a mobile phone uses 'stock' Android (e.g. the Nexus One or Galaxy Nexus), then it's pretty trivial to get an upgrade to the latest release. If you buy a heavily-customized Motorola phone, however, you may never see that upgrade because of the 'tweaks' that Motorola made, which they might not care to port forwards.