TechPowerUp Releases GPU-Z 1.20, Fixes Radeon RX 500 BIOS Extraction Issue

The very latest edition of the GPU-Z utility is now available from our buddies at TechPowerUp. It comes hot on the heel of version 1.19.0 which was released just a week or so ago. The main change is a critical update that fixes a bug that effected BIOS Extraction with newly launched Radeon RX 500 series cards from AMD. According to TechPowerUp:

”TechPowerUp today released the latest version of TechPowerUp GPU-Z, the ubiquitous graphics subsystem information and diagnostics utility. Version 1.20.0 comes with a few critical updates that make come in handy to users of upcoming graphics cards. To begin with, a bug was fixed that caused video BIOS extracted from AMD Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards to be corrupted. GPU-Z now correctly extracts the BIOS. Grab it from the link below.”

The full changelog from versions 1.18.00, 1.19.0 and 1.20 includes the following improvements :

v1.20.0 (April 18th, 2017)

  • - Fixed BIOS extraction resulting in corrupted BIOS on Radeon RX 500 Series

v1.19.0 (April 13th, 2017)

  • - Improved support for AMD Radeon 500 Series
  • - Added BIOS saving support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • - Added support for NVIDIA Titan Xp, Quadro M600M, Quadro M1200
  • - Fixed NVIDIA driver version detection on Windows 8
  • - Added new Sapphire vendor Id

v1.18.0 (March 16th, 2017)

  • - Added support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Quadro P4000, P1000, P600, P400
  • -Added support for AMD Radeon RX 580, RX 570, RX 560, RX 550, HD 6430M
  • -Added support for Intel HD Graphics 500 (Apollo Lake Pentium N4200)
  • -Update check will now display the latest version number available
  • -Fixed error message display during BIOS upload
  • -Improved tray icon creation code when GPU-Z is launched during Windows startup

Find the latest GPU-Z v1.20.0 utility from TechPowerUp here.


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