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.
AMD debuted its new SmartAccess Storage tech at Computex 2022 recently but details on it were scarce. Later in a separate interview, the company shared more information about the feature.
AMD debuts today its new SmartAccess Storage technology which marries the goodness of Microsoft's DirectStorage with its own Smart Access Memory technology, promising faster game load times, and more.
Nvidia is reportedly preparing all-new Lite Hash Rate (LHR) series of RTX 3000 series GPUs. This means we may be getting new RTX 30 series card versions all the way from the RTX 3080 down to the 3060.
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.
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.