AMD Radeon RX 9070 gains wings with XT BIOS

[Kaz]

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Members of the PC Games Hardware forums are the first to try something new with the Radeon RX 9070. Although BIOS modding was very popular back in the day, GPU vendors are now locking down such modifications quite strictly, meaning it is often very hard or even impossible to introduce changes to the card specs with such a simple switch. It turns out that at least some Radeon RX 9070 non-XT GPUs can be flashed with the 9070 XT BIOS.

Basically, this enables higher clocks and higher TGP, one of the most visible changes when comparing both variants of RDNA4 GPUs. However, this does not change the core count or memory specs, the latter being identical on both SKUs already.

The power and clock-starved RX 9070 non-XT got new wings with the unlocked XT BIOS. Users are reporting that it is even possible to overclock the card further. There is no issue running the non-XT 9070 cards with XT BIOS at stock, adds one of the modders.

 

Just a moment...

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Shout out to speed_demon who posted this on discord.

[pio]

I saw this on the discord too.  Such a dangerous idea, I have a 9070 Steel Legend that's just sitting here for a friend.  It's kind of just BEGGING to be unwrapped and BIOS modded I feel now........