Wednesday, January 13th 2021
MSI Brings Resizable-BAR to Intel 300-series and AMD 400-series Motherboards
MSI announced that it is bringing the PCI-SIG resizable base-address register (resizable BAR) support to a variety of older PC platforms, and not just the latest Intel 400-series and AMD 500-series. Among these are Intel 300-series, AMD 400-series, and AMD TRX40. This should come as a boon to those with 8th Gen and 9th Gen Core "Coffeee Lake" processors, such as the i9-9900K and i5-8400. Support is also being added to AMD X470 and AMD B450 chipset motherboards, however, this requires a compatible processor, and the latest beta UEFI firmware that supports them. Lastly, resizable-BAR support is making its way to the AMD TRX40 chipset (Socket sTRX4) Threadripper platform.
Resizable BAR is a feature that allows a processor to see the entire video memory of a discrete GPU as a single addressable block, rather than through 256 MB apertures. This has the potential to tangibly improve performance with certain games. Currently, AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series "Big Navi" GPUs; and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" GPUs support it. MSI is releasing UEFI firmware updates that add resizable-BAR support. Keep checking the "support" section of your motherboard's product page on the MSI website.
Resizable BAR is a feature that allows a processor to see the entire video memory of a discrete GPU as a single addressable block, rather than through 256 MB apertures. This has the potential to tangibly improve performance with certain games. Currently, AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series "Big Navi" GPUs; and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" GPUs support it. MSI is releasing UEFI firmware updates that add resizable-BAR support. Keep checking the "support" section of your motherboard's product page on the MSI website.
13 Comments on MSI Brings Resizable-BAR to Intel 300-series and AMD 400-series Motherboards
Now we know which company to avoid when AM5 hits.
and also how is this something to thank Intel for? AMD pushed out SAM which just is resizable BAR which was PCI spec....and now MSI and other motherboard makers are adding it do their product....I fail to see where Intel deserves any credit at all.
Local company here, memoryexpress, offers in store back orders. So I can place an in-store pre order for a 3070 for about $730 CAD (which is expensive but our dollar did depreciate a lot so it's expected).
When I will get it though? Probably when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with mars.
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If ASUS does not give users a 5000 Series BIOS for the C6H, I'm definitely going ASROCK for my new AMD system motherboard if and when.
I was hoping to upgrade to a 5900X on the C6H motherboard, but if that doesn't happen, is the 3900X(/XT) similarly good? The reviews with price/performance ratios puts them both at nearly the same number. I don't want to spend for a new motherboard just because I want to upgrade from my current 1800X CPU. I would have preferred the 5900X over the 3900X just to be more future-proof, if nothing else.