UEFI has been the norm for well over a decade at this point. If you're trying to run a brand new GPU in a 15+ year-old system, you've already made many mistakes.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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Yeah... I was a little confused myself.
UEFI came out in like 2005 and was standard on basically all new PC motherboards from around 2012
Tbh I'm shocked generations before this still had official BIOS support
Imagine buying a PCIE 5 card to use in a crusty old PCIE 3 or 2 board >.>
Pcie to agp adapter in hand
PCIe to AGP and 12VHPWR to Molex
I can smell the burning plastic from here
Cursed converter
PCIE to ISA adapter
Would you notice that big of a performance difference from PCIE3? Usually for gaming the bandwidth is nowhere near close enough to being saturated and sure, PCIE5 will have 4x the throughput of PCIE3, but I imagine the performance loss would be more due to the CPU than the PCIE bandwidth.
Can someone eli5 why the graphics card cares about UEFI?
All graphics cards interface with BIOS/UEFI when the system initializes - every piece of non-hotswap hardware has to or it won't be initialized and cannot be used.
The question is really why should a graphics card maker care to dedicate time to make their card compatible with BIOS when 99.999% of the systems running their cards will use UEFI, and they said 'hey actually we don't care' as far back as 2023 in the 7000 series but for some reason (clickbait) this is being dug up again.
I can only think about those performance profile options you have in your BIOS/UEFI menus
Your guess is as good as mine.
Huh, the 7000G series already required uefi, surprised it took them this long to require that for their dedicated gpus
This is going to be interesting
The diagnostic software environment I use to test graphics card VRAM only boots in legacy mode. TServer and Memtune are both internal AMD Tools that have leaked. So far, older boards that support Legacy / CSM have been the ideal platform as a test bench for graphics card repair.
Probably going to be quite the shakeup in the graphics card repair community’s toolkit if the updated version of Memtune for 9xxx cards ever leaks.