Update BIOS on same version ACER AN515-55

Hi,
Today I discovered that the new BIOS for my ACER AN515-55 potentially increases GPU performance and the GPU TGP by 10W (from 85 to 95).
I want to update my BIOS but the version is the same, only thing is that my version is much older by date instead of the new one, and if I remember correctly the old one had changes for battery values, the new one that I can get from downloads is about power and NV QBoost.

Old version: 2.03 2021/03/24
New version: 2.03 2021/06/09

Currently installed:

New one:

Error:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/bc/m3i6bwakpklf.png

If I download the BIOS .exe FILE, it won't update because recognizes it as the same version.
I know that a BIOS update is dangerous, but still, this looks good enough and maybe can also solve a black frames Issue I'm having while watching videos using hardware acceleration on any chromium-browser (this's potentially just a driver issue and not on BIOS level, I will do a clean install of WIndows 11 soon).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Good night/Good day depending on your timezone.

Thread was edited to add model name to the title

Accepted answers

Commodore_1995#

You didn't understand what I said. The left shows the release date on the acer website. On the right, shows the firmware modification date:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/c0/1gwh5p6uxtpq.png

About the video card firmware, check this out:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/g6/25977x6zoyjj.png

GABRYCA

egydiocoelho said:

You didn't understand what I said. The left shows the release date on the acer website. On the right, shows the firmware modification date:

About the video card firmware, check this out:

Oh wow, I didn't see it on the bottom, thank you.
I will download and install it asap.
Anyway, that's not where I was getting the BIOS date, but from the System Information app, still I was wrong.
Thank you for the help.

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brummyfan2

Hi,
Where are you seeing the date for old version of 2.03?

GABRYCA

brummyfan2 said:

Hi,
Where are you seeing the date for old version of 2.03?

System information.

brummyfan2

I don't think you need to update BIOS to the same version, but it's me, if you want more assuarance please wait for someone else to respond.

GABRYCA

brummyfan2 said:

I don't think you need to update BIOS to the same version, but it's me, if you want more assuarance please wait for someone else to respond.

I think someone forgot to change the version there, it's probably actually different.
Anyway thanks.

Commodore_1995#

You are referring to the release date made available on the acer website. the release date is different from the bios file creation date. Also, there is firmware for the nvidia graphics card.

GABRYCA

egydiocoelho said:

You are referring to the release date made available on the acer website. the release date is different from the bios file creation date. Also, there is firmware for the nvidia graphics card.

Changelogs/Titles are different, the old one got replaced with this one, I'm pretty sure that a firmware update for the GPU on a laptop should be made from BIOS level, as there aren't downloads from Acer for it but the bios is called BIOS/Firmware (Not sure).

I got the info about TGP from here:
https://www.hwupgrade.it/news/portatili/acer-aumenta-il-tgp-delle-gpu-geforce-rtx-3000-sui-notebook-maggiori-prestazioni-con-un-aggiornamento_98898.html
(Sorry it's in Italian but there's a techspot english version somewhere but with missing laptops from the table).
Good evening.

Commodore_1995#

You didn't understand what I said. The left shows the release date on the acer website. On the right, shows the firmware modification date:

About the video card firmware, check this out:

GABRYCA

egydiocoelho said:

You didn't understand what I said. The left shows the release date on the acer website. On the right, shows the firmware modification date:

About the video card firmware, check this out:

Oh wow, I didn't see it on the bottom, thank you.
I will download and install it asap.
Anyway, that's not where I was getting the BIOS date, but from the System Information app, still I was wrong.
Thank you for the help.