This has been possible several times in history when you have multiple GPUs based on the same die and just binned differently (and not physically fused off). And it’s the same situation here, same die, but the non-XT has some of the cores disabled.
But don’t expect this to work on all 9070s, the inactive cores may be defective. In fact I’d suspect that’ll be the case for most of them, unless the demand for the 9070 is so large they’re binning down perfectly working XTs.
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It adopts the clock speeds, does not unlock cut down hardware. Still – interesting results.
night-suns
i might be mistaken. but wasn’t this a thing when you could install the bios of the 480 onto the 470 for extra performance? and similarly, the 580 bios onto the 480’s which higher power limit?
Saneless
Finally we can get the Nvidia feature of the better card having missing cores/rops
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This has been possible several times in history when you have multiple GPUs based on the same die and just binned differently (and not physically fused off). And it’s the same situation here, same die, but the non-XT has some of the cores disabled.
But don’t expect this to work on all 9070s, the inactive cores may be defective. In fact I’d suspect that’ll be the case for most of them, unless the demand for the 9070 is so large they’re binning down perfectly working XTs.
It adopts the clock speeds, does not unlock cut down hardware. Still – interesting results.
i might be mistaken. but wasn’t this a thing when you could install the bios of the 480 onto the 470 for extra performance? and similarly, the 580 bios onto the 480’s which higher power limit?
Finally we can get the Nvidia feature of the better card having missing cores/rops