The early 2010s was peak BIOS design. When I built a new PC in 2022 to replace my 2014 4th gen i5 machine, I was amazed to discover that the BIOS interface in my brand new, $500 AM5 motherboard was actually worse than the one in my old $120 board.
The old one ran at my display’s native resolution (1080p at the time), had a contemporary interface, and cool stats showing on the left and right sides of the screen. Meanwhile the BIOS in my modern PC runs at 1024x768, is mostly text-based, and so many settings are just buried several menus deep. IDK if this is an AMD problem or an AM5 problem (not a motherboard manufacturer problem cause they’re both Gigabyte boards), but it was a shock to the system for sure to see how badly the tech has regressed.
BIOS and UEFI are collaborations between the mobo manufacturer and the CPU manufacturer. The CPU side of it includes things like microcode and code for moving the settings values into the registers (or other location) where they are actually used. The mobo side would be the UI itself and setting up the menus, as well as adding stuff for the other hardware components that need something set up at boot time.
Fwiw, the gigabyte AM5 mobo I use has a responsive UI in the UEFI program, and displays at a decent resolution (though probably not the native one, 1080p would be my guess). Though the mouse might be more usable because it has hardware DPI selection.
BIOS menus have always been shitty in my experience in Intel and AMD, with my AMD motherboard I can only use the keyboard because the mouse input is incredibly slow and unusable, not sure how it passed QA.
I just switched to an AM5 board and at least on mine there’s a setting that enables HD resolutions, but the input works noticeably worse than on my mobo from 10 years ago.
Might be an AM5 thing or that particular board, I don’t recall these particular shortcomings in my Gigabyte 12th gen Intel mobo or my friend’s Asus AM4 mobo
The early 2010s was peak BIOS design. When I built a new PC in 2022 to replace my 2014 4th gen i5 machine, I was amazed to discover that the BIOS interface in my brand new, $500 AM5 motherboard was actually worse than the one in my old $120 board.
The old one ran at my display’s native resolution (1080p at the time), had a contemporary interface, and cool stats showing on the left and right sides of the screen. Meanwhile the BIOS in my modern PC runs at 1024x768, is mostly text-based, and so many settings are just buried several menus deep. IDK if this is an AMD problem or an AM5 problem (not a motherboard manufacturer problem cause they’re both Gigabyte boards), but it was a shock to the system for sure to see how badly the tech has regressed.
BIOS and UEFI are collaborations between the mobo manufacturer and the CPU manufacturer. The CPU side of it includes things like microcode and code for moving the settings values into the registers (or other location) where they are actually used. The mobo side would be the UI itself and setting up the menus, as well as adding stuff for the other hardware components that need something set up at boot time.
Fwiw, the gigabyte AM5 mobo I use has a responsive UI in the UEFI program, and displays at a decent resolution (though probably not the native one, 1080p would be my guess). Though the mouse might be more usable because it has hardware DPI selection.
BIOS menus have always been shitty in my experience in Intel and AMD, with my AMD motherboard I can only use the keyboard because the mouse input is incredibly slow and unusable, not sure how it passed QA.
I have the same issue on Intel raptor lake, so there’s that.
I just switched to an AM5 board and at least on mine there’s a setting that enables HD resolutions, but the input works noticeably worse than on my mobo from 10 years ago.
Might be an AM5 thing or that particular board, I don’t recall these particular shortcomings in my Gigabyte 12th gen Intel mobo or my friend’s Asus AM4 mobo