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BIOS mod has been verified by a couple of tech sites this weekend.
I'm glad you mentioned the new AMD drivers picking up on these BIOS Mods, Do it at your own risk!
Wow,it actually hardly changes power consumption either:
https://www.techpowerup.com/228601/a...eam-processors
The Asus Strix gains nearly 10% overall in performance just from the unlocked shaders.
https://www.techpowerup.com/img/16-1...6a5d908562.jpg
So basically AMD just made the GTX1050 look better for no reason.
Probably the early yields weren't good enough to produce enough fully-enabled cards. They'd have looked a lot worse if 1 in every 10 cards was borked straight out of the box, and we've only had, what, 7 confirmed successes with this technique so far? Plus they were obviously reserving the top bin dies for the professional cards which have a much higher margin.Quote:
Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH
Yields should have improved over time, so I'd expect to see a fully enabled RX 465 down the line...
It still doesn't beat the 1050 on performance, so if it hurt the £90 starting price of the RX 460 I think it would be a backwards step.Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
An extra crippled 470 might be a better move.
The Witcher 3 generally runs better on Nvidia cards anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
If you look at the TPU review of the GXT1050,its considered to be around 10% faster on average(TPU also tends to be harder on AMD cards,too if you look at the GTX1050TI vs RX470 performance difference),so a fully enabled Polaris 11 would probably be around GTX1050 level performance.
This is why the RX460 4GB should have at least launched as a fully enabled chip IMHO OFC.
This is quite common from AMD though: they don't bin their products very aggressively.
I guess lower volumes explains some of it, but it seems Nvidia are willing to release higher bins first and then keep binning until they have set aside enough to release a lower binned part.
Unless the initial Polaris 11 yields are very, very poor indeed that would have been a better strategy for AMD too.
From the TPU power figures, downclocking the 1024 shader part to the 896 performance might make for a very efficient part.
This is essentially what they are already doing for the professional grade cards, and the profit margins on the professional cards are much higher - which is why I suspect most of the top-bin dies went into the professional cards in the first place, leaving the consumer product with insufficient fully-functioning dies to risk a fully-enabled consumer part.Quote:
Originally Posted by kompukare
I can only see them releasing a fully-enabled RX 465 if the yields have improved sufficiently for them to do so at no extra cost: I can easily see a big trumpets-blaring Vega launch being followed closely by a Polaris refresh, with xx5 cards coming out to replace the incumbents at the same price (and the existing cards getting a price cut to shift the supply whilst they're still available).
Nice. I'm getting a single slot one in the new year.