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Has anyone ever flashed a GPU bios?
The main reason to flash the BIOS is that many of the cards are artificially limited by having a low Power Target. This means the card can never reach its true potential. Whether this is NVIDIA doing or not, it's hard to tell. Either way, NVIDIA has to sign off on every BIOS since it's encrypted to stop outside modification. That brings me to the main selling point of flashing the BIOS to a different series. Many series have a basic, OC, and an extreme model. In previous generations, most people in the overclocking scene knew most of the time the base model could achieve similar results. Many of the base models for the RTX 2080 have a power limit of 250 watts and 280-300 watts for the 2080 Ti. In comparison, the top RTX 2080 at the time of writing this tops out at 300 watts and 450* watts for the 2080 TI. That is a drastic difference simply because either these AIB partners or NVIDIA decided to artificially limit the cards.
GPU bios flashing(nvidia)
The main reason to flash the BIOS is that many of the cards are artificially limited by having a low Power Target. This means the card can never reach its true potential. Whether this is NVIDIA doing or not, it's hard to tell. Either way, NVIDIA has to sign off on every BIOS since it's encrypted to stop outside modification. That brings me to the main selling point of flashing the BIOS to a different series. Many series have a basic, OC, and an extreme model. In previous generations, most people in the overclocking scene knew most of the time the base model could achieve similar results. Many of the base models for the RTX 2080 have a power limit of 250 watts and 280-300 watts for the 2080 Ti. In comparison, the top RTX 2080 at the time of writing this tops out at 300 watts and 450* watts for the 2080 TI. That is a drastic difference simply because either these AIB partners or NVIDIA decided to artificially limit the cards.
GPU bios flashing(nvidia)
