Sunday, September 30th 2018
New NVFlash Released With Turing Support
With the latest release of NVIDIA's NVFlash, version 5.513.0, users can now read and write the BIOS on Turing based graphics cards. This includes the RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070. While this may seem mundane at first, due to the different power limits between graphics cards, there is some hope that cross flashing of the BIOS could result in tangible performance gains.
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA NVFlash v5.513.0
In response to this development, TechPowerUp has released a new test build of GPU-Z, which supports the ability to save the BIOS of Turing based graphics cards. With both of these updates, enthusiasts now have the ability to save their BIOS with GPU-Z and flash a new BIOS on their RTX series cards with NVFlash. It should be noted that saving the BIOS on older NVIDIA graphics cards should still work correctly, however, further testing is necessary due to the number of code changes. To help mitigate any issues, new safety checks have been added as a precaution. Even so, we take no responsibility to any damage done by flashing your graphics cards BIOS. With that said, for users saving the BIOS of older graphics cards please report your findings in the thread below. Your feedback is appreciated.
DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp GPU-Z Test Build
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA NVFlash v5.513.0
In response to this development, TechPowerUp has released a new test build of GPU-Z, which supports the ability to save the BIOS of Turing based graphics cards. With both of these updates, enthusiasts now have the ability to save their BIOS with GPU-Z and flash a new BIOS on their RTX series cards with NVFlash. It should be noted that saving the BIOS on older NVIDIA graphics cards should still work correctly, however, further testing is necessary due to the number of code changes. To help mitigate any issues, new safety checks have been added as a precaution. Even so, we take no responsibility to any damage done by flashing your graphics cards BIOS. With that said, for users saving the BIOS of older graphics cards please report your findings in the thread below. Your feedback is appreciated.
20 Comments on New NVFlash Released With Turing Support
If you flash your graphics card, you may destroy it. TPU accepts no liability for your actions.
If you flash a $/£1200 gfx card, well, hell, you got deep pockets!
If it turns out you can finally flash this gen of Nvidia cards, I may look into getting one...
Well, a second warning gives you super dooper cover.
The lack of a bios switch is the only thing that would make me think twice, although that hasn't stopped me before ;)
Though I already ran down that rabbit hole a couple of weeks ago …
I said back then; Let's assume some BIOS flash thingy comes out and just wait ‘till a few warning examples have been set (as a few just brick'ed their Non-A card as they tried to flash their Non-A RTX to a Grade-A RTX-card) and then just
placelet pop up such news about that on prominent places like Reddit & Co – and within days you've scared the shite out of the crowd and finally the horde got it that they either kindly a) have to buy some (ways too overpriced) Grade-A card or b) buy an older last gen card (which, curiously enough, is also vastly overpriced).In both cases nVidia get dreamlike profits again …
→ You can bet on it that such fitting BIOS images are 'leaked' therewith (and in order that) the crowd just ultimately tries to do so, so that there will be happening such desired effects – which the overwhelming majority of the mass will only fathom a) after it's way too late and b) nVidia already is richer on the margin share.
I
saidpredicted such happenings already about two weeks ago.We're all just part of a way bigger game this time, let me tell you that.
EDIT: I'm dumb, just saw the post above me. Yeah crossflashing works, but is amongst the most dangerous flashes you can do if you don't know the board differences. Still, most likely nothing will happen, but caveat emptor and all.
Because i get "nvflash firmware image pci does not match adapter pci subsystem id" precislily I use nvflash64 -6 (rom name)
Thanks a lot!