When AMD launched its Smart Access Memory (SAM) expertise, it was used as one of many key promoting factors for its 5000 sequence of Ryzen processors based mostly on Zen three structure. At the time of launch, it was believed that solely the most recent era of Ryzen processors can assist it and solely AMD GPUs can see a profit in efficiency. However, afterward, lots of the motherboard makers have been taking part in with BIOS updates and have discovered a option to allow resizable BAR, the expertise used for SAM, on non-AMD platforms. Today, because of the Reddit person Merich98 we’ve got came upon that ASUS has enabled resizable BAR assist by way of BIOS replace.
The person has used BIOS model 2409, launched just some days in the past, on ASUS B450-PLUS motherboard. The feat is not any extraordinary as a result of it really works on a B450 motherboard, it has been supported for a very long time, however relatively the feat is spectacular as a result of it really works with the primary era AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor. This contradicts the speculation that SAM solely wants 5000 sequence AMD Ryzen processors to run. However, the good points weren’t that nice. On common, the common body fee quantity has elevated by a small +0.839%. This could possibly be attributed to some margin of error, so it looks as if SAM just isn’t giving a lot efficiency uplift on this case.
