4gb radeon rx 480 confirmed to mutate to 8gb
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A few days ago the alarms went off when it was known that AMD Radeon RX 480 cards with 4 GB of memory really have 8 GB on their PCB, half of the memory is disabled from the BIOS so you only have to make a modification in this to to be able to unblock all the memory installed in the PCB of the card.
AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB can mutate to 8GB version via BIOS
This confirms that the Radeon RX 480 are actually cards with a total of 8 GB of memory manufactured by Samsung on its PCB, this memory works at an effective frequency of 8 GHz and the total amount can be unlocked by modifying the card firmware. This situation has occurred because AMD did not have time to launch two different versions of the card, so they proceeded to download it with the software in order to be able to offer two different variants.
A photograph shows that the 4GB Radeon RX 480 actually has the same Samsung chips as the 8GB model, the BIOS is in charge of making it work as a 4GB card but this can be mutated by installing a custom BIOS.. This situation reminds us of the old Phenom II X2 processors that could be mutated to Phenom II X4 by actually being the same chips.
Source: wccftech
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