"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. Learn the basics. I'm a senior ...

Highly anticipated: Nvidia has finally begun rolling out Resizable BAR support, beginning with the desktop RTX 3060 and a select few RTX 3000-series equipped laptops. Enabling it can be a bit of a ...

Some of NVIDIA's add-in board (AIB) partners have begun dishing out BIOS updates to add a potentially performance-enhancing feature to GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. That feature, of course, is ...

Nvidia took to stage last night at CES to unveil several new products and features among which was the addition of the new Resizable BAR feature to its RTX 3000 series GPUs. Rival AMD had introduced ...

Recent hardware-level and OS-level optimizations—from enabling Resizable BAR in BIOS to Linux kernel patches prioritizing VRAM for active games—are delivering measurable FPS and stability improvements ...

AMD has now expanded support for its Smart Access Memory feature to Ryzen 3000 series processors. The feature debuted last year alongside the launch of the Ryzen 5000 CPUs and RX 6000 series GPUs. AMD ...

AMD's Resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory feature is coming to Ryzen 3000 CPUs based on the Zen 2 architecture. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

In brief: Hardware manufacturers AMD, Intel, and Nvidia have been working on incorporating a new performance-boosting feature that has been part of the PCIe spec for years called Resizable BAR ...

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 ...

Gaming specialists note that enabling BIOS options such as XMP/EXPO for RAM and Resizable BAR for GPUs can deliver smoother performance in heavily modded games. These settings improve memory bandwidth ...

Nvidia is bringing Resizable BAR support to the rest of the RTX family after introducing it with the RTX 3060 last week. Expect performance gains of up to 10 percent. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...