• @[email protected]
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    12 hours ago

    While this doesn’t mean RDNA 4 GPUs will cease to function with legacy firmware, AMD offers no assurance.

    Nothingburger, actual news would be it ONLY works on UEFI.

  • LostXOR
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    Makes sense; UEFI is the standard now, and maintaining backwards compatibility is expensive. I can’t see a reason why someone would need to use a latest gen AMD card on a non-UEFI system.

  • John Richard
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    Say it with me, “UEFI isn’t inherently bad.” I’m more pissed that they are skimping out on the VRAM.

    • @[email protected]
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      322 hours ago

      would you have prefered they paid more for bleeding edge 3gb gddr stacks and put 24gb when only a subset would actually need it?

      • John Richard
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        222 hours ago

        Yes absolutely, but the markup on VRAM is already insane. We’re not talking about a huge price difference here. Even if their $600 card now costs $670, they’d get a lot of sales just by setting themselves apart from NVIDIA, especially for those interested in running AI models locally. I know plenty of people buying Macs now just cause of AI spending $3000+ or more. NVIDIA & AMD have a duopoly though, so if one says they’re not going to do something then the other doesn’t have a strong incentive to either.

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          if you’re interested in running local AI models, that market should be looking at the strix halo desktops. that was basically 80% of the marketing framework did for its framework desktop.

      • @[email protected]
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        222 hours ago

        I’d prefer they offered it as an overpriced premium SKU for those of us who can’t say no to 4k.

  • @Ep1cFac3pa1m
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    Hasn’t that been the case for a while now? The RX5700 I bought in like 2019 only worked in UEFI systems.