Originally posted by: PeteRoy
Does anyone know why there are no BIOS updates for video cards like there is for motherboards?
Originally posted by: cusideabelincoln
Motherboards need to support many things and product updates. A video card doesn't.
Originally posted by: angry hampster
There are. They're called "next generation cards." :laugh:
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
Originally posted by: angry hampster
There are. They're called "next generation cards." :laugh:
Only if they're nVidia cards :laugh:
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
Originally posted by: angry hampster
There are. They're called "next generation cards." :laugh:
Only if they're nVidia cards :laugh:
Originally posted by: angry hampster
There are. They're called "next generation cards." :laugh:
Originally posted by: bryanW1995
Originally posted by: angry hampster
There are. They're called "next generation cards." :laugh:
in some cases that is correct...in others they don't even bother to update the bios!! Nvidia is the most recent culprit with 8800gt/9800gt/gts250, but ati blazed this trail many years ago.
Originally posted by: Denithor
Originally posted by: bryanW1995
Originally posted by: angry hampster
There are. They're called "next generation cards." :laugh:
in some cases that is correct...in others they don't even bother to update the bios!! Nvidia is the most recent culprit with 8800gt/9800gt/gts250, but ati blazed this trail many years ago.
Actually it was 8800GTS -> 9800GTX+ -> GTS 250.
And I wish nVidia had gone ahead with their plans to relabel the 9800GT as a GTS 240, then at least we would have a uniform naming system for all the current-generation cards.
You guys seem to forget that while GT200 (GTX 260/280) is based on G92 it's not quite the same. GT200 features the same basic architecture but nVidia added a considerable number of shader processors to beef up the rendering capabilities (G92 had 96/112/128 depending on the card, GT200 has 192/216/240). The advantage is pretty drastic in certain applications (various games, F@H, CUDA apps).