RX 480 Cards Can be Flashed to RX 580

[vorticalbox]

34 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Nobody with any sense would upgrade from a 480 to a 580 anyway, or 470->570.

I might upgrade my 7770 to a 570  

[WMGroomAK]

34 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

I have a dual BIOS card. I'll probably do it tomorrow if I have time.

If you do this, you should record the thermals from the card and also see if you can 'overclock' the new BIOS based OC of the card...  Would be kind of interesting to see how stable this really is and how much headroom you gain on the BIOS flash over a factory 580.

[ivan134]

5 minutes ago, WMGroomAK said:

If you do this, you should record the thermals from the card and also see if you can 'overclock' the new BIOS based OC of the card...  Would be kind of interesting to see how stable this really is and how much headroom you gain on the BIOS flash over a factory 580.

I lost the silicon lottery (at least I think so; I suspect I have bad wiring in my house because I keep getting burnt power strips) so I doubt I will have any OC headroom. I'll still give it a try.

[Arc_Jester]

I already know my card can fairly easily hit 1400Mhz so I'll try this when I get confirmation it works on the Armor cards.

[Sakkura]

47 minutes ago, N1ghtshade said:

True, but i'm saying for people doing new builds it'd make more sense to just get a cheap 480 and flash it.

The 480 isn't cheaper, and you might have issues with power delivery. 

[VerticalDiscussions]

Loool, so does this mean:

 

#AMDChipGate

#RX580CheapTrick

#AMDRoasted

[Doobeedoo]

I'm sure things can go wrong, since RX 500 series use refined process so.

[AntonChigurh]

29 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

He has an XFX RS cooler which is much worse than the GTR that I have. All he did was flash the BIOS and hasn't done any extensive game testing. He said he was going to so keep and eye out for that. His temps and noise levels are going to go through the roof. Buying a "cheap" 480 with the intention of flashing it onto a 580 is dumb. There's a reason the only 480s that came with the 580-type clocks were the GTR, Nitro, Strix and MSI Gaming. Hell, Sapphire had to make the Nitro 580 cooler bigger to handle those clock speeds.

Well I guess now people have a reason to buy 580s instead of 480s. Even the 580 costs less than any of those cards

[ashypanda]

looks neat might try if there's a 4GB bios around, although not much point as my 480 is at 1350mhz already.

[MoonSpot]

1 hour ago, GrantW said:

I will wait on more news about this before possibly doing mine.

 

(If its safe, fail/success chance etc). Do not want to risk 200 quids worth for a bit of extra power...  

Thats a sensible thing to do.  Do you belong here?

 

cause we're more "Moar powah, pennies from heaven, party on Wayne" types here as evidenced by:

[Clanscorpia]

Im totally going to do this. Maybe Ill be able to push past the 0.05 barrier I cant hit to get 1.5GHz

[Trixanity]

If your 400 series card has won the silicon lottery, you probably have most of the process improvements on the chip already and will therefore be fine with the increased clock speed.

However I doubt you'll get the new memory power state (quite sure it's a hardware feature). Probably won't matter for the majority of people though.

[michaelocarroll007]

2 hours ago, N1ghtshade said:

Rip AMD... looks like everyone's gonna be flashing their 480s instead of buying the RX5XX series

AMD didnt plan to sell a 580 to someone who owns a 480. and once the stock of 480s are goine this isnt going to be much of a problem either

[LukaH]

2 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

Where would you get a rx580 4gb bios?

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/

this is usually the go to place for me. but i think the bios you are looking for isn't there... yet.

[EunSoo]

1 minute ago, LukaH said:

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/

this is usually the go to place for me. but i think the bios you are looking for isn't there... yet.

yeah, they only have 8gb. varients

[iamdarkyoshi]

2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Flashed my old 290 to a 390 a couple years back. Slight performance increase at the cost of more heat output. Flashed it back to stock.  

Brother has a 290x on a custom loop, but it artifacts if you breathe on the core clock or memory clock, so probably wouldn't help...

[AntonChigurh]

27 minutes ago, michaelocarroll007 said:

AMD didnt plan to sell a 580 to someone who owns a 480. and once the stock of 480s are goine this isnt going to be much of a problem either

Read my other posts. I wasn't talking about upgrading I was talking about new builds.

[Soonercoop]

2 hours ago, ivan134 said:

Iirc, it doesn't. I know the XFX and Nitro cards do.

He has an XFX RS cooler which is much worse than the GTR that I have.

How is the minimal temperature difference between those coolers going to matter that much anyway? It's not worth flashing it with either cooler. "Dirty RS peasant! I have a GTR cooler!" is what I envision from this exchange. People should just be buying 480s cheap for the sake of getting them cheap. The performance difference is marginal since the cards boost fine on their own anyway.

[NumLock21]

Flashing the card from a RX480 to RX580 is stupid. What happened to old the days when you can buy a consumer AMD card and then flash it into one of their more expensive workstation FirePro or FireGL. Now that's a bios that's worth flashing.

[ivan134]

1 hour ago, Soonercoop21 said:

How is the minimal temperature difference between those coolers going to matter that much anyway? It's not worth flashing it with either cooler. "Dirty RS peasant! I have a GTR cooler!" is what I envision from this exchange. People should just be buying 480s cheap for the sake of getting them cheap. The performance difference is marginal since the cards boost fine on their own anyway.

85c is a minimal difference from 67c? Whatever dumb things you envision are a personal issue. The RS has a worse heatsink than the nitro 480.

[Clanscorpia]

3 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

85c is a minimal difference from 67c? Whatever dumb things you envision are a personal issue. The RS has a worse heatsink than the nitro 480.

Nitros heatsink isnt bad when you win the lottery

[ivan134]

Just now, Clanscorpia said:

Nitros heatsink isnt bad when you win the lottery

It's still not desirable. The nitro 580 is what the nitro 480 should have been (I made a thread in the graphics section). The problem with the nitro was that the small heatsink meant you had to make a trade-off between temps and noise. And the RS heatsink is worse.

[PCGuy_5960]

4 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

RX470->RX570 for free?  

How tempting...

 

[Clanscorpia]

Just now, ivan134 said:

It's still not desirable. The nitro 580 is what the nitro 480 should have been (I made a thread in the graphics section). The problem with the nitro was that the small heatsink meant you had to make a trade-off between temps and noise. And the RS heatsink is worse.

I wonder if I could buy a nitro 580 cooler and slap it on my card, although I never go above 70c even at 1.495

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, Clanscorpia said:

I wonder if I could buy a nitro 580 cooler and slap it on my card, although I never go above 70c even at 1.495

Get an Arctic Accelero, it is MUCH better