By Darren Allan
Want to juice up your Radeon RX 480 graphics card so it’s as powerful as one of AMD’s new RX 580 offerings? Some enterprising folks have apparently achieved this ‘free upgrade’ feat already by flashing the older card with the freshly released firmware from an RX 580 – but be warned, this is certainly not an undertaking for the fainthearted.
The process was performed by a denizen of the TechPowerUp forums known as TonybonJoby (let’s call him Tony for short), who employed the ATIFlash utility to use the BIOS from a Sapphire RX 580 in his XFX RX 480 graphics card.
Once flashed with the new firmware, the RX 480 ran fine at the (much faster) stock clock speed of the RX 580 (1411MHz), seeming to be ‘completely stable’ according to Tony, with no evidence of crashing or glitches (he mentions testing the flashed card with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, incidentally).
So why wouldn’t you want to do this? For starters, flashing a graphics card like this is a relatively tricky process that shouldn’t be attempted by those who aren’t tech-savvy and fully confident in what they’re doing. Making a mistake could easily brick your graphics card, rendering …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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