AMD releases official vBios update for Fury X and Nano cards - Improves UEFI and Overclocking

[goodtofufriday]

Sources: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-official-uefi-vbios-for-fury-x-released-apr-5th.221766/

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/gpu-firmware-download

https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2016/04/05/radeon-r9-fury-nano-uefi-firmware

 

In a nutshell, with the new bios users have been able to achieve slightly higher overclocks that are stable, and according to AMD also provides better compatibility with UEFI bios. This should lead to faster boot up and over all better stability. 

 

Being an owner of both the fury x and a nano I want to give these a shot, but installation is not cut and dry. Unless you are familiar with command line and are able to stay calm if you brick one of your two bios then I wouldn't attempt it. 

 

Its great to see AMD still striving to make their cards even a little bit better. Im sure the experience they garner here will help out with their new cards a lot.

 

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We’ve been watching and listening when you’ve been asking about the status of a UEFI VBIOS for certain Radeon™ GPUs. Those of you who know what that is are likely quite interested in reading the rest of this blog, and you’ll be pleased to know that we have a solution for you.

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Since the advent of the Radeon™ R9 300 and Fury Series GPUs, our board manufacturing partners (“AIBs”) have had access to source code suitable for building customized UEFI-based firmwares. Many AIBs have already transitioned to UEFI by including this code in their custom firmware images, or have implemented solutions like “dual-BIOS” switches to work around the potential issues with BIOS-based motherboards. Today, it’s quite easy to find a UEFI-compliant Radeon™ R9 300 or Fury Series GPU that enables a pure EFI boot environment and the fastest boot modes.

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As a result, today we are releasing AMD-built UEFI-compliant GPU firmware for the Radeon™ R9 Fury X and R9 Nano GPUs. These firmware images can be flashed to any Radeon™ R9 Fury X and R9 Nano GPU, respectively, to enable UEFI compliance and a pure EFI boot environment.

Edit: Lots of spelling and grammar mistakes. 

[byalexandr]

Finally, UEFI support is a must. Now I'm definitely getting a Nano.

[Enderman]

7 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

provides better comparability with UEFI bios. This should lead to fazster boot up and over all better stability. 

Do you mean compatibility?

 

 

[goodtofufriday]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Do you mean compatibility?

 

 

Yeah. Thats what I get for typing too fast.

[Mew]

Wow I didn't know that AIB partners had to add in UEFI support; I thought AMD cards were all had an UEFI GOP bios since the 7xxx series. Improving overclocking through a bios update sounds a lot like R9 390's secret sauce bios tweaks compared to the 290. 

[ivan134]

Or just buy a Nitro Fury. This is the best Fiji card out there right now.

[DXMember]

I am still confused about the status of R9 Fury in this... it vaguely mentions all three Fiji variants, but provides the firmware only for Fury X and Nano.

still, can someone confirm on the overclocking benefits? I'm not really interested in flashing the cards just for giggles to improve boot times... don't care about boot times...

[Doobeedoo]

Nice. Would like to see difference, though bricking a card... gotta be careful.