Tuesday, February 12th 2019
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AMD Outs UEFI-ready Video BIOS for Radeon VII, Company Promises One-click Updater
As a follow-up to our story from Monday about AMD missing out UEFI BIOS support for its Radeon VII graphics cards, AMD has come out with a quick response. The company in a statement said that it is ready with a UEFI-ready video BIOS for the Radeon VII, and has released the BIOS to its partners. This explains ASRock's timely release of its BIOS update. The company also assured those unwilling to manually update their video BIOS that it will have one-click automatic BIOS updates posted on the AMD website very soon. AMD reiterated that the older BIOS and the new one with UEFI GOP support won't have any performance differences. The new BIOS will make your machine start up faster, since your motherboard will no longer need to load CSM. AMD's full statement follows.
AMD has released a BIOS for the Radeon VII with UEFI GOP included for our AIB partners. We will also make a one click installable BIOS available to end users via AMD.com. We do not expect gaming performance differences between the non UEFI BIOS and the UEFI GOP included BIOS, although the non UEFI BIOS may experience slower boot times from cold boot.Update: The AMD BIOS Updater is located here: www.amd.com/en/support/radeonvii-vbios-eula
13 Comments on AMD Outs UEFI-ready Video BIOS for Radeon VII, Company Promises One-click Updater
promise, underdeliver, deliver, reach up to hype, update, increase performance,
in all of the steps they are playing for the marketing, it is simple as that.
one explains this :
TPU does have a habit of updating our titles/news posts when new info becomes available...
TLDR:
That dude obviously has no clue what he's talking about. Lucky guess on the "flag"(which I'd bet a million $ he has no idea where to even find, or much less how it's set). Total BS on UEFI support and capability with it set or not. If the correct "flag" bytes aren't set, UEFI functionality is disabled, regardless of whether or not the BIOS has a UEFI GOP image. If the BIOS has no UEFI GOP image there will be no UEFI support and capability even with the correct "flag" bytes set.
Yes, the card will boot without a UEFI GOP image(or with a deactivated UEFI GOP image) in its BIOS, and UEFI functions "enabled"(and/or CSM disabled) in the motherboard's UEFI/BIOS. So long as those enabled UEFI functions are NOT Secure Boot. With Secure Boot enabled and no UEFI GOP image(or one that's deactivated) in the card's BIOS you are not booting with the card. Period. And...even though you CAN boot without a UEFI GOP image(or with a deactivated UEFI GOP image) and Secure Boot disabled, all other UEFI functions(if enabled in the motherboard's UEFI/BIOS) will fail to operate as well(fast boot etc.). Just because it boots doesn't mean it's working as intended. Do your own research/experimentation(as I've done extensively) and you will find that to be true. ALL UEFI functionality requires the UEFI GOP image in the card's BIOS to be present and activated(via the "flag").
BTW, AMD has released an update:
www.amd.com/en/support/radeonvii-vbios-eula
GOP section is present:
EDIT: LOL. I've just cut the BIOS out of AMD installer and it is 100% identical to AsRock, so if anyone already flashed the AsRock vBIOS, don't bother downloading one from AMD (or vice-versa).