In an attempt to squeeze more performance out of their GPU, a user on Reddit has successfully flashed the BIOS of a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/radeon” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/radeon”>Radeon RX 9070 XT onto their non-XT variant. As per a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1nlpqx3/flashed_the_reaper_9070_into_a_fake_xt_boosted_my/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1nlpqx3/flashed_the_reaper_9070_into_a_fake_xt_boosted_my/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>post by u/noVa_realiZe on the r/Radeon subreddit, they were pretty satisfied with the results, as their PowerColor RX 9070 Reaper gained an uplift of 25% in synthetic benchmarks, and around 8-12% while gaming.
The user notes that they performed the vBIOS flash using an open-source tool published on Overclock.net by user Benik3. If…
