@Suiseiseki yeah, i mean i get why they have closed source firmware. from my understanding gpus these days are often to some degree limited by the firmware. fx: you can get more performance out of a rx 5700 by flashing rx 5700 xt firmware on it. you won't get extra shader units, but higher clock speeds, which gives you close to xt performance in many scenarios. amd wants people who want to have rx 5700 xt perf to actually buy the rx 5700 xt. with free software firmware this could potentially go even worse from amd's pov. imagine you risk losing profits, because some guys in their basements managed to optimize the shit out of the gpu firmware and now nobody wants to buy your new product