The bar has just been lowered (in a good way!) for Resizable BAR, the PCI-Express graphics feature that lets CPUs directly access a GPU’s onboard memory to improve gaming frame rates. That’s because AMD just announced it’s bringing the tech to its last-gen Ryzen 3000 series processors, not just the new Ryzen 5000 chips that initially launched with the feature.

AMD originally debuted the feature as “AMD Smart Access Memory,” and you specifically needed an AMD Ryzen 5000 CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics card to make it work. That wasn’t a particularly easy sell, considering both have been incredibly hard to find at retail since they first debuted.

With Ryzen 3000, AMD’s actually promising up to 16 percent more performance, compared to the 10 percent both AMD and Nvidia previously offered, though it will really depend on the game. TechSpot discovered that some games could see a 20 percent boost on the AMD CPU+AMD GPU side of things, while other games actually had reduced performance.

Cool GTX
interesting, AMD must be feeling some pressure ?

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Brad_Hawthorne

Cool GTX
interesting, AMD must be feeling some pressure ?

Not understanding that take on the addition. What pressure is Intel putting on the market?

Intel finally selling their tech at the right price (slashing up prices), that is the only pressure I see..and with the fined Intel has to pay, we are going to see more products at discounted prices.  AMD needs to lower their CPU prices at least 5% off the current price in order to gain, if not, Intel eventually is going to gain ground.