GALAX and Gainward have released VBIOS updates that add support for the PCIe Resizable BAR feature on its cards. After updating, the feature should be available on RTX 3090, 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti.

PCIe Resizable BAR allows the CPU to address the entire available VRAM buffer of the GPU instead of the typical 256MB. This allows requests to be queued parallelly instead of sequentially, ...

"Smart Access Memory" is AMD's marketing name. "Resizable Base Address Register" / "Resizable BAR" is the underlying technology which had been part of the PCIe spec for a while already, but was ...

Resizable BAR is a feature of the PCIe standard that enables a system's CPU to see the entirety of the GPU's memory subsystem, instead of just a small 256 MB portion.

During the launch of the widely coveted GeForce RTX 30-series desktop GPUs, Nvidia had officially announced the introduction of the Resizable BAR, which is a PCIe-based technology that allows all ...

For laptop gamers, Intel this week announced during the Tom's Hardware Show that it will bring Resizable BAR to systems equipped with 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs and H35-series mobile chipsets, as ...