AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems - eviltoast
This shouldn't affect most users.
  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Makes sense; UEFI is the standard now, and maintaining backwards compatibility is expensive. I can’t see a reason why someone would need to use a latest gen AMD card on a non-UEFI system.

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    6 hours ago

    Is there even a board with a modern PCI port with a non-UEFI BIOS?

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Say it with me, “UEFI isn’t inherently bad.” I’m more pissed that they are skimping out on the VRAM.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      would you have prefered they paid more for bleeding edge 3gb gddr stacks and put 24gb when only a subset would actually need it?

      • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I’d prefer they offered it as an overpriced premium SKU for those of us who can’t say no to 4k.

      • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Yes absolutely, but the markup on VRAM is already insane. We’re not talking about a huge price difference here. Even if their $600 card now costs $670, they’d get a lot of sales just by setting themselves apart from NVIDIA, especially for those interested in running AI models locally. I know plenty of people buying Macs now just cause of AI spending $3000+ or more. NVIDIA & AMD have a duopoly though, so if one says they’re not going to do something then the other doesn’t have a strong incentive to either.

        • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          if you’re interested in running local AI models, that market should be looking at the strix halo desktops. that was basically 80% of the marketing framework did for its framework desktop.

  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Hasn’t that been the case for a while now? The RX5700 I bought in like 2019 only worked in UEFI systems.