Flashing Radeon 470 to 570 and 480 to 580 Possible
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:24 pm
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/wanna- ... sible.html
So yesterday after posting our RX 570 and 580 reviews some questions have risen on the fact if the the 470/480 and be flashed towards the 570/580. This seems to be a correct assumption as a Guru3D member flashed his Radeon RX 470 succesfullty towards the RX 570.
Most board partners use the very same PCB design they used for the 400 series. And since the Device ID remaines the same, just the Subsystem Id was changed. That opens up the possibility to flash the graphis card. The GPUs might be newer, but they are more of the same yet binned for higher clocks. Yesterday in our forums user BigMaMaInHouse already flashed his radeon RX 470 towards the RX 570, and he did so successfully. Check the thread and posts here.
Now he has a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 and he flashed it towards the Nitro+ 570 with nothing more then ATIFlash and the firmware. Once he applied a atiflash -p 0 Bios.rom -f to force the flash it was done. This worked fine, his temperatures are higher as it seems, but the card is fully working and performing. Nothing a fan profile cannot deal with.