[Const-me]

> old VGA cards would show some company text before handing off to the PC

My Gigabyte motherboard is doing that. Ain’t too old, has AMD’s X570 chipset.

[happynacho]

Well, that's the motherboard, not the videocard. Every motherboard does it.

[remexre]

Yep, that's through the BGRT, which is part of ACPI. I'm not actually sure if a GPU could export one to the BIOS, but I assume not.

[im3w1l]

The connection to the monitor is physically located on the video card. So the gpu could display whatever it wants without asking or coordinating with the motherboard.