In a recent guide by Intel regarding its new Arc GPUs, the company had hinted that AMD's Smart Access Memory support could be coming to Arc in future. Today, the company has officially confirmed it.
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Intel recently commenced the release of its desktop Arc GPUs with the A380 model. Following that, the company has also published a document outlining the system requirements for initial Arc support.
ASUS Z390 and Z370 chipset motherboard owners are angry at the vendor because the company has not yet released any firmware updates for adding support for the PCIe Resizable BAR feature.
Nvidia and its AIB partners have released VBIOS update tools which adds support for Resizable BAR feature on RTX 3000 series GPUs. With this enabled, the company promises up to 12% performance gains.
GALAX and Gainward have released VBIOS updates that add support for the PCIe Resizable BAR feature on its cards. After updating, the feature should be available on RTX 3090, 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti.
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.
After its announcement last night by Nvidia, motherboard maker MSI officially adds support for Resizable BAR option for RTX 3000 series GPUs on select AMD and Intel motherboard models.