Smart Access Memory

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A stylised image displaying the nature of memory transactions between system RAM and VRAM

Resizeable BAR mod for older gaming PCs, said to deliver up to 12% more performance, could breath a little more life into systems as old as Sandy Bridge

By Nick Evanson published

news Your graphics card and drivers will also need to support it, if you want a free frame rate boost.

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT rendering

AMD's frame rate boosting SAM feature is now available on RX 5000-series GPUs

By Jacob Ridley published

News And there's an official wink at Windows 11 gamers from AMD.

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AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs get go-ahead for performance boosting Smart Access Memory

By Jacob Ridley published

News It's an easy switch, providing you've got all the component parts required.

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Nvidia RTX 30 Mobility

Nvidia's mobile Ampere GPUs and answer to AMD Smart Access Memory set for CES reveal

By Jeremy Laird published

CES 2021 CES announcements galore.

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MSI Z490 ACE motherboard

Intel motherboards start receiving updates to match AMD's latest performance-enhancing feature

By Jacob Ridley published

News MSI is bringing Re-Size BAR support to Z490, B460, and H410 motherboards by the end of the year.

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AMD RX 6000-series GPU next to render of a Ryzen CPU on dark red background

Smart Access Memory: the simple switch that makes an all-AMD gaming PC sing

By Jacob Ridley published

SAMwise Never turn your nose up at free performance.

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AMD RX 6800 XT graphics card at various angles

AMD says Smart Access Memory isn't proprietary it's just it only works on AMD hardware right now

By Dave James published

News AMD is welcoming 'the opportunity to support other hardware vendors' like Nvidia and Intel.

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