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AMD Radeon Resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory

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I had to do the convertion above to make i work in bios, but how does one see in windows if its enabled?
 
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W1zzard did you test if SAM works on other drives e.g. a secondary nvme?
 
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jesdals said:
W1zzard did you test if SAM works on other drives e.g. a secondary nvme?
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SAM has nothing to do with storage. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
 
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W1zzard said:
SAM has nothing to do with storage. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
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I did just wonder since it needs the speciel boot partion to show the drives - before i did the convertion of my boot disk the nvme drives was not accessible - but it might not be an issue then.
 
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SAM requires the system to boot in UEFI mode, i.e. not CSM. This only works when you have a UEFI boot partition in your system.
 
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OMG this thing is buggy on Auros Master X570. Did som memory changes in bios and suddently I was back to not beeing able to se my nvme drives ind the boot menu. I took several resets before getting to boot for minute ther I thought I would have to convert the c drive again.
 
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After MSI published the BIOS in December for Tomahawk B450 Max enabling the SAM feature, I thought I should test it even having a 2600X with an RX5700. And today I did so finding the results below:

Rome2TW SAM on: 175FPS maximum, 96FPS average, 65FPS minimum
Rome2TW SAM off: 149FPS maximum, 94FPS average, 64FPS minimum

DirtRally SAM on: 178FPS maximum, 150FPS average, 110FPS minimum
DirtRally SAM off: 175FPS maximum, 142FPS average, 89FPS minimum

Games as Ghost Recon Wildlands and the (vulkanised through the DXVK) AC Odyssey didn't show any performance differences.

Another change from enabling this feature is that the loading screeens when getting in the gameplay take significantly less time.
 
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HD64G said:
After MSI published the BIOS in December for Tomahawk B450 Max enabling the SAM feature, I thought I should test it even having a 2600X with an RX5700. And today I did so finding the results below:

Rome2TW SAM on: 175FPS maximum, 96FPS average, 65FPS minimum
Rome2TW SAM off: 149FPS maximum, 94FPS average, 64FPS minimum

DirtRally SAM on: 178FPS maximum, 150FPS average, 110FPS minimum
DirtRally SAM off: 175FPS maximum, 142FPS average, 89FPS minimum

Games as Ghost Recon Wildlands and the (vulkanised through the DXVK) AC Odyssey didn't show any performance differences.

Another change from enabling this feature is that the loading screeens when getting in the gameplay take significantly less time.
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I have had SAM on since December. No issues, but I didn't do any before or after. ^^
 
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