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The thread which sometimes talks about RDNA2

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The upgrade from my 300 series Asrock ITX board to a 400 series is £300 plus the socket is different and the 500 series is 3 months away so no deal on that upgrade for SAM, i might as well go AMD.

Richdog said:
6900XT benchmarks in AOTS, which mean absolutely nothing but it's all we have for now https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt-aots-performance-leaks
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I do laugh when benchmarks get leaked and it’s one of the worst benchmarks to get leak that tells you almost nothing. The PR teams do this to get news feed slots.

We already know the performance of the reference card, the question is how hard have AMD gimped the OC performance.
 
I'm calling it now, Nvidia will rebadge SAM to:
Geforce Base-Address Register: GBAR

Apparently the PCI-Express root complex of Ryzen 5000 "Vermeer" processors introduce a PCIe physical-layer feature called full-rate _pdep_u32/64, which is required for resizable-BAR to work.

It gets more interesting—Intel processors have been supporting this feature since the company's 4th Gen Core "Haswell," which introduced it with its 20-lane PCI-Express gen 3.0 root-complex. This means that every Intel processor dating back to 2014 can technically support Resizable-BAR, and it's just a matter of motherboard vendors releasing UEFI firmware updates for their products (i.e. Intel 8-series chipsets and later). AMD extensively advertises SAM as adding a 1-2% performance boost to Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards. Since this is a PCI-SIG feature, NVIDIA plans to add support for it on some of its GPUs, too. Meanwhile, in addition to AMD 500-series chipsets, even certain Intel 400-series chipset motherboards started receiving Resizable BAR support through firmware updates.
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from tpu

Soooo....apparently AMD didn't make the Ryzen 3000 series cpus robust enough...hmm...I wonder if the MB AIBs could support it via chipset?
 
nvidiamd said:
So why don't you show us the second picture? Maybe because the PS5 was way ahead of 2080? :)
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The second test doesn't translate into games.

For example it ranks the ps4 pro ahead of the xbox one x yet the xbox one x hands a can of whoop ass on the ps4 in any game.

The first test translates into gaming performance that we've already seen
 
Grim5 said:
Measuring the pixel fill rate of the PS5

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Did you really save, crop and reupload this image?

The orginal image for anyone wondering
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Grim5 said:
The second test doesn't translate into games.

For example it ranks the ps4 pro ahead of the xbox one x yet the xbox one x hands a can of whoop ass on the ps4 in any game.

The first test translates into gaming performance that we've already seen
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You don't understand what you see. You are a Nvidia fanboy so you were happy you found a picture where the 2080 is ahead of a much cheaper card so you rushed to share the news with us. :)
The second test is much more important because it shows the power of the card to provide in game writings based on normal letters instead of using pictures. No one will use arial font in the game to write something on a wall. They will use small pictures instead of complicated fonts. The test shows the PS5 can do much better with complicated fonts than the 2080 so you can use the fonts instead of pictures.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
BTW,no Smart Access Memory for Zen2 and earlier users:
https://www.techpowerup.com/275565/...mitation-intel-chips-since-haswell-support-it

Intel can support it technically upto Hawell. So either an Intel CPU or Zen3 is your only bet for SAM. This is despite it apparently working under Linux on older hardware.
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I've yet to hear anyone saying enabling resizeable BAR in linux gives SAM level performance boosts.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/commen..._zen_2_cannot_support_sam_due_to_the/gek878v/
 
nvidiamd said:
The second test is much more important because it shows the power of the card to provide in game writings based on normal letters instead of using pictures. No one will use arial font in the game to write something on a wall. They will use small pictures instead of complicated fonts. The test shows the PS5 can do much better with complicated fonts than the 2080 so you can use the fonts instead of pictures.
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Funny thing is some quite old hardware had dedicated vector font rendering hardware which probably would still hang in there with some of this hardware today heh.
 
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