GIGABYTE Unlocks AMD Smart Access Memory on 500 Series Motherboards, Improving Radeon Gaming Performance by Up to 17 Percent

Tsing · Nov 30, 2020

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AMD Ryzen 5000 Series processor and GIGABYTE 500 Series motherboard users who were lucky enough to find a mythical Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics card will definitely want to head over to GIGABYTE’s support site, as BIOSes enabling Smart Access Memory on the X570, B550, and A520 chipsets have now been released.

Based on GIGABYTE’s tests with an X570 AORUS MASTER motherboard and AORUS Radeon RX 6800 XT MASTER GPU, users can expect increased performance in select titles (e.g., Assassin’s Creed Valhalla) of up to 17 percent and 10 percent in 1080p and 2K/4K resolutions, respectively. (Note that these estimates were attained with the help with AMD’s new tuning...

ThreeDee · Nov 30, 2020

sooo .. any word on 3000 series CPU's and perhaps 5000 series GPU's getting some SAM love?

GIGABYTE Unlocks AMD Smart Access Memory on 500 Series Motherboards, Improving Radeon Gaming Performance by Up to 17 Percent

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