Thursday, November 26th 2020

AMD Radeon Smart Access Memory Coming to 400 Series Motherboards

AMD announced Radeon Smart Access Memory (SAM) alongside the RX 6800 series as a feature to increase video memory available to the CPU. SAM is AMD's implementation of the resizable BAR feature found in the PCI Express specification. AMD Smart Access Memory is only available when using an AMD Ryzen 5000 series process and AMD Radeon RX 6800 series graphics card on a compatible motherboard. The feature was initially advertised as a 500 series motherboard exclusive feature but AMD has recently released the new AGESA v2 1.1.0.0 update which should enable support for SAM on B450 and X470 motherboards with a BIOS update.
Source: Computerbase.de
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28 Comments on AMD Radeon Smart Access Memory Coming to 400 Series Motherboards

#26
ODOGG26
A Lot of people commenting seems to give off the impression that it is going to be that easy. lmao. Like a line of code or just some simple implementation. There is a lot of work that needs to be done and then some. They even had to put their own specific sauce on it so NVIDIA making these claims like its that easy will be in for a hard time. AMD specifically spoke on that feature in a q&a video with Hothardware. Spoke about supply and all other stuff.

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Space Lynx
Astronaut
turbogearI will also test it soon on ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VIII WIFI x570 with Ryzen 5800x.
My Radeon 6800XT is arriving today. :D

The problem for AMD is at the moment to make enough 6800 series cards available for people who want to buy them and use this feature. :shadedshu:
I only wish AMD Radeon drivers had a little area that would turn green letting you know SAM is enabled fully. I mean I have both options enabled in BIOS, so I do have it enabled, but it would be nice to have confirmation of it.

and congrats on that setup!
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#28
iuliug
As a owner of a X470 board, with SAM and Ryzen 5000 compatibility incoming, i can say AMD did right by me. Hopefully i will be able to a afford a Navi GPU 2 sometime next year.
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