The performance difference Smart Access Memory provides to the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT across a range of games, based on our testing. The company didn’t specify when the BIOS revisions necessary to ...

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AMD's Smart Access Memory feature was an unexpected part of its RX 6000 Series graphics cards reveal, providing better gaming performance by exclusively allowing the latest Ryzen 5000 processors to ...

Back when AMD announced the Radeon RX 6900, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 at the end of 2020, the company detailed an intriguing feature called Smart Access Memory. By allowing its latest Ryzen 5000 series ...

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During its Where Gaming Begins Ep. 3 event, AMD has confirmed it will be officially bringing its Smart Access Memory support to Ryzen 3000 series CPUs. Previously available only on AMD Ryzen 5000 ...

AMD introduced the Smart Access Memory (or SAM) feature - which is a fancy term for PCIe Resizable BAR - back in October last year when it launched the Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs. Today, due to ...

AMD is about to launch its new RDNA 2 architecture that powers the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards, with soemthing NVIDIA doesn't have: Smart Access Memory. AMD's new Smart Access ...

In brief: AMD touted a new Smart Access Memory feature for its RDNA 2 graphics cards (Radeon RX 6000 series) as something exclusive to an all-AMD configuration, but Nvidia says it will soon enable ...

If you are about to build a new gaming PC then you would be crazy to not be buying a new Zen 3-powered AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU. AMD's Smart Memory Access gives the new Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series ...

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GPU driver releases normally aren't very newsworthy; they usually fix bugs, boost performance in some games, and add support for new GPUs. But owners of last-generation AMD Radeon RX 5000-series ...