not really, it's much easier now and nearly all gpu come with dual bios which makes bricking it almost impossible
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Nvidia Re-Size Bar/SAM support is live for some cards, more in March - 10% performance gains
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not really, it's much easier now and nearly all gpu come with dual bios which makes bricking it almost impossible
Palit released an updated bios for 3080/3090 last year a few weeks after launch which fixed a couple of issues. You can always download that one as a backup in case you need to flash back.
I updated my 3080 back then, obviously newer cards will already have been updated. It was very easy to flash, took about 30 seconds or so
I imagine the new bios coming soon will be just as easy
Updated my Strix 3090 as they released a VBIOS in Dec to fix the 0dB fan and a motherboard issue and it didn't take long at all, started the .exe and in about 10 secs it was done. Compared to updating a motherboard BIOS its way faster, still makes me nervous though in case something goes wrong during the update or I get a sudden power cut. Just wish they would hurry up with this VBIOS though, I want that few extra frames already 
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So that people with Ryzen 3000's would have another reason to upgrade to a new Nvidea card.
Updated my Strix 3090 as they released a VBIOS in Dec to fix the 0dB fan and a motherboard issue and it didn't take long at all, started the .exe and in about 10 secs it was done. Compared to updating a motherboard BIOS its way faster, still makes me nervous though in case something goes wrong during the update or I get a sudden power cut. Just wish they would hurry up with this VBIOS though, I want that few extra frames already
As mentioned be at ease your card has multiple bios files, you can't brick the card even with power failure it will just boot another bios file
Updated my Strix 3090 as they released a VBIOS in Dec to fix the 0dB fan and a motherboard issue and it didn't take long at all, started the .exe and in about 10 secs it was done. Compared to updating a motherboard BIOS its way faster, still makes me nervous though in case something goes wrong during the update or I get a sudden power cut. Just wish they would hurry up with this VBIOS though, I want that few extra frames already
Make sure to run the update on the second VBIOS too when updating on dual bios cards so both VBIOS are up to date. Just flick the switch to the other VBIOS and boot up on second VBIOS and run the update again, it will only update if it needs to. So the performance and quiet VBIOS get the fixes added.
This is very interesting, it also goes into a bit of detail on AMD 6000 vs Nvidia's implementation. Supposedly the former is done in hardware which results in a bigger performance increase whereas the latter is done in software: https://www.igorslab.de/en/radeon-r...or-resizeable-bar-but-can-do-it-well-reasons/
AMD were not lying when they said SAM is more than just ReBar if this accurate.
AMD were not lying when they said SAM is more than just ReBar if this accurate.
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Its good for everyone if they (amd/nvidia) are being pushed to offer free performance to all users.
Yes, competition is great, I am waiting for AMD's answer to DLSS where Nvidia definitely have a big advantage.
Thought I would double check as I updated the VBIOS originally on performance mode only but I always leave it in the quiet mode. Downloaded the VBIOS again while in quiet mode and it says the VBIOS is already up to date so it seems to have updated both.
Apparently not according to Igor's Lab
https://www.igorslab.de/en/resizeab...or-all-rtx-3000-without-hidden-mining-limits/
Slightly surprised by that. The only ones affected by this would be casual miners who actually game though, so shouldn't really affect supply either way.
Yeah my day 1 card had a weird issue with the fans which kept ramping up and down, the bios update resolved that. No changes to the boost clocks either from that bios.
I've downloaded the current available bios as a back up. If it messes up i can plug this card into another rig and reapply the older bios. Will be abit of a faff but least theres a backup plan. Do you have a Palit card as well? Did you use the same utility included with the bios?
Yea I have a Palit card (3080).
I can't remember what I did, I just remember following the instructions and was surprised how quick & easy it was
Just downloaded the new one and theres no instructions. Just a pdf with some notes and a exe file which seems to just auto run the vbios update.
Just checked, it was a .exe called VGA_BIOS_Upgrade_0930-1
I managed to update my bios with it back in September so I guess I just ran it as Administrator and it worked
Not really surprising tbh, they’d be opening themselves to a load of potential legal headaches if they intentionally significantly reduced the card’s abilities after the fact.
Regardless of what anyone rightly or wrongly believes about their intentions, they aren’t stupid and it’s much cleaner and easier to just alter new card models going forwards.
Good stuff, hate updating vbios it always feels sketchy even though its probably no different to updating the mobo bios lol.Just checked, it was a .exe called VGA_BIOS_Upgrade_0930-1
I managed to update my bios with it back in September so I guess I just ran it as Administrator and it worked
I always clench my cheeks worrying there will be a power cut even though I don't think there has been more than 2 in the last 10 years where I live
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Is this something that a 8086k on an ASUS X370 with a RTX3080 would benefit from?
I have wondered about this, but not sure if it only becomes an issue if they nerf a performance metric on the spec sheet. An alternative solution that I've heard is that they could EOL all current SKU, and generate a new SKU for the same cards with updated BIOS.