Earlier right now, we lined AMD’s Ryzen chipset driver 7.02.13.148, which packs a number of new packages geared toward bettering utility compatibility and Microsoft Pluton assist, amongst others.

Whereas looking, Neowin observed that the corporate has put up a brand new assist doc on its web site that shares data associated to UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) assist on its latest RX 9000 sequence graphics playing cards.

AMD unveiled its new 9070 sequence GPUs final week to tackle Nvidia’s RTX 5070/Ti playing cards. The preliminary reception to this point appears to be optimistic because the agency is promising to supply near RTX 5070 Ti ranges of efficiency at simply over the value of a 5070. Except for gaming, AI / ML and media encoding/decoding efficiency can be mentioned to be improved significantly.

Within the new doc about UEFI assist, AMD has acknowledged that Radeon GPUs 9000 sequence onwards will formally assist solely UEFI mode and thus in case your system is configured to make use of legacy BIOS or CSM (compatibility assist module), it might not work and will fail as well.

The requirement is much like Home windows 11’s which makes UEFI / Safe Boot necessary and is completed to reinforce OS safety. Except for safety, there are different advantages of UEFI like Quick Boot. AMD explains:

In comparison with the older “legacy” BIOS firmware, UEFI firmware affords many new and helpful options, together with:

• Significantly improved safety
• Absolutely specified interfaces that guarantee interoperability and testability
• Reliable firmware updates from the web with minimal consumer interplay
• Assist for exhausting drives bigger than 2.2TB
• Assist for a lot of new varieties of PC {hardware}, together with NVMe SSD boot assist
• Home windows® Safe Boot for malware prevention
• Quicker shutdown, startup, sleep, and resume instances

To completely leverage the advantages of UEFI, solely UEFI Mode might be formally supported ranging from the AMD RDNA™ 4 era of graphics playing cards (Radeon™ RX 9000 Sequence Graphics and later).

AMD additionally reminds us about ReSizable BAR additionally referred to as Good Entry Reminiscence within the case of Radeon as a advantage of UEFI.

It has additionally been hinted that there could possibly be efficiency and compatibility points if customers wouldn’t have UEFI firmware enabled on their programs, because it writes:

It is necessary on your PC to be configured for UEFI Mode to make sure optimum compatibility, efficiency, and consumer expertise along with your AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Sequence and newer graphics playing cards.

This implies such unsupported units operating Home windows 11 with out UEFI / Safe Boot is not going to work optimally with a Radeon 9000 sequence graphics card, and therefore you may be higher off upgrading to a brand new PC.

As a trivia, if you’re questioning whether or not your present graphics card’s VGA BIOS (vBIOS) comes with a UEFI module, you should use TechPowerUp’s GPU-Z to search out that because it incorporates a small checkbox with that data.