Faster gaming frame rates for free: Resizable BAR explained

If you’re lucky enough to have snagged the latest graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, you just got another bonus performance boost in your toolkit. It’s called Resizable BAR, and depending on your setup, the technology can give a noticeable lift in gaming framerates. Here’s how it works.What are Resizable BAR and Smart Access Memory (SAM)? Resizable Base Address Register (or Resizable BAR, as it’s known colloquially) is a new feature that improves communication between your processor and graphics card. It’s actually been part of the PCI Express specification for some time, but only now have manufacturers actually enabled it for use on the latest graphics cards, motherboards, and processors.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3622009/faster-gaming-frame-rates-for-free-resizable-bar-explained.html#tk.rss_all

Created 4y | Jun 18, 2021, 10:20:40 AM


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