AMD Rolls Out new HD 7950 BIOS, Expects Existing Customers to Look the Other Way
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AMD today pushed out a BIOS update for its Radeon HD 7950 line of cards, but only for reviewers….for the time being.
The company says the updates this refreshed BIOS has will in many ways mirror the style of update delivered to the 7970: apparent performance updates, new features, and an increased clock speed to 850MHz base/925MHz with “Boost” (compared an original base speed of 800MHz).
While AMD’s public affairs corps want this to be seen as being inline with industry standards, the optics of this read as a bait and switch as, reportedly, these clock speeds aren’t even available on all products (let alone the ones already in the channel) and AMD itself doesn’t guarantee that it will work. AMD is cautioning users to do the update only if the card has a dual bios switch.
We all know why this is being done and personally I am hoping it will allow AMD to regain some momentum. However, after the HD 7970 "GHz Edition" launch and subsequent failure, I'm not keeping my hopes up.... :(
AMD Updates Radeon HD 7950 to Thwart GeForce GTX 660 Ti
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AMD Updates Radeon HD 7950 to Thwart GeForce GTX 660 Ti
AMD is preparing to update the specifications of its Radeon HD 7950 graphics processor to make it more competitive in the sub-$400 market segment, particularly against NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics processor. The update is much like that of the Radeon HD 7750, which got its core frequency increased from 800 to 900 MHz in a specifications update. The company released a new BIOS ROM image file which works on all AMD reference design Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards, which implements the new specifications.
The new specifications sees the GPU core frequency increased to 850 MHz (from 800 MHz), and introduces PowerTune with Boost, which sends the GPU clock speed up to 925 MHz, when applications demand it. The memory frequency stays unchanged, at 1250 MHz, and so do the physical specifications of the GPU, such as stream processor, TMU, and ROP counts. All Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards manufactured from mid-August will feature the new specifications, prices will remain unchanged. If you're familiar with manually updating the BIOS, you can check it out (at your own risk) from our VGA BIOS Database. Set your card's BIOS selector switch to "1" (if available), and update the BIOS. It works only with AMD reference-design HD 7950 cards.
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DOWNLOAD: BIOS released by AMD which enables 850/925 boost clocks for reference design HD 7950 cards