This shouldn't affect most users.
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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

@phx@lemmy.ca
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Is there even a board with a modern PCI port with a non-UEFI BIOS?

Maybe. What is the cutoff?

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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.

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Jeff Geerling would like to have a word with you.

@nesc@lemmy.cafe
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Maybe it’s time for arm boards to actually support their trash. UEFI itself supports arm.

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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.

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

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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.

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

So?

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