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Here is why AMD might never include Smart Access Memory support on Ryzen 3000 and older models, while 6-year-old Intel CPUs can still benefit from this feature – Notebookcheck.net

It is quite ironic how AMD’s Smart Access Memory (aka Resizable BAR) could help Intel and Nvidia regain some lost market shares. AMD offered to help its competitors…

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Despite being first to add support for the Resizable BAR (AKA Smart Access Memory) feature on the new Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs and RX 6000 GPUs, AMD might never offer backwards compatibility with older Zen models like Ryzen 3000, 2000 and 1000. The Resizable BAR feature is actually part of the PCIe 3.x specs and should be supported by all motherboards and CPUs that are compatible with the PCIe 3.x features , but it looks like this is not really the case for all AMD Zen-based CPUs. Meanwhile, Intels…

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