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Boost Gaming Speed With a Click: What Is Resizable BAR, and Can It Juice Up Your PC? – PCMag AU
“Norm!” No, it’s not an episode of Cheers. Nvidia’s Resizable BAR, also known as SAM (for AMD), could be the key to higher PC-game frame rates—with the right hardware….
AMD launched the Radeon RX 6800 XT, its latest mainstream flagship graphics card, late last year. The company was proud to show off what, at the time, it called its newest “proprietary” feature: Resizable BAR (Base Address Register), albeit under AMD’s own moniker of Smart Access Memory (SAM). We put the word “proprietary” in quotes because, as it turns out, there’s nothing wholly new or proprietary about Resizable BAR (or alter ego SAM). And now, it’s coming to an Nvidia GPU (and Intel CPU) near…
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