Nvidia working on their own Smart Access Memory solution for Ampere and both Intel and AMD CPUs

[Humbucker]

https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1327006795253084161

From NVIDIA, re:SAM: “The capability for resizable BAR is part of the PCI Express spec. NVIDIA hardware supports this functionality and will enable it on Ampere GPUs through future software updates. We have it working internally and are seeing similar performance results."

Hard to fit in a tweet, but basically, they're working on enabling the same feature as AMD Smart Access Memory (AMD GPU+CPU=Perf uplift) on both Intel and AMD. No ETA yet. Doesn't look like it'll be ready before RX 6000 launch, but we'll keep an eye on development.

Further info: does not require PCIe Gen4

weird times we're living in where AMD are locking their features to their own hardware and Nvidia are coming in late with a non-platform specific implementation. interesting to see if there is a genuine performance increase or they're just trying to get a bit of good PR out before benchmarks.