Geeky Gamers Tech

  AMD's Smart Access Memory has been ported over to Intel, sort of. See, the feature allows a Ryzen 5000-series processor to have full access to the GPU memory of a Radeon RX 6000-series GPU, which can have a decent impact on performance. That does sound smart, but SAM is actually based on a technology called resizable base address register, or resize BAR which has been a part of the PCIe spec for years. Nvidia has said they ‘reworking on adding the feature to their GPU as well. Some of the board makers have already released BIOS updates that enabled BAR on Intel’s Z490 motherboards including Asus and ASRock, who named their implementation Clever Access Memory. Some early testing has been done showing that a system with an Intel 10900K and an RX 6800 XT could gain performance by as much as 16%. This is great news for Intel, but if some Rocket Lake leaks are accurate, they're gonna need every extra boost they can get. That was a rocket pun. Maybe they can ask Elon Musk for he...