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X470 and B450 motherboards to get Smart Access Memory
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Soldato
Oh AMD, you should have maybe anounced older gen support during big Navi fanfare.
If I knew X470 was getting SAM support, I wouldnt have been so quick getting a 3070!
If I knew X470 was getting SAM support, I wouldnt have been so quick getting a 3070!
They probably changed their mind once people start moaning and Nvidia quickly stepped up to try and be the good guy.
One thing that isn't clarified is does this work with Ryzen 3000 CPUs on 400 series chipsets or do you still need a Ryzen 5000 CPU.
Caporegime
Hell yeah, staunch B450 user checking in.
Seems like it is 5000 series only. At least you don't need to buy a new mobo.
Soldato
Sweet as i REALLY like my ROG Strix gaming-F!!
Caporegime
We look forward to getting the custom of the Italian Stalion back one day!
Soldato
Using cpu and mb so I'm only getting a semi with Amd just now, maybe get me full on Amd excitement one day.We look forward to getting the custom of the Italian Stalion back one day!
Besides, I've just realised it's MB support not cpu support thats been anounced, I'm on X570 anyway, talk about premature reactions.
Soldato
For Nvidia also ? (Yes Nvidia will support SAM at some point - in case anyone tells me it can't be done with Nvidia) Soz can't read link blocked where I am.
Wonder if the performance uplift will be worth be upgrading from B350 to something to take advantage of SAM.
Wonder if the performance uplift will be worth be upgrading from B350 to something to take advantage of SAM.
Good that it is supported as there isn't a hardware reason for it not to be. What would be more interesting is if it was also enabled for 3000 and 2000 series processors, again there isn't an obvious hardware reason for this not to be possible, seeing as the part of the PCIe spec that makes this possible in its current state was introduced with PCIe 3.0 (also version existed in 2.0).
It doesn't say, but considering it specifically states SAM which is an AMD product name it is safe to assume it is only talking about RDNA 2
I can see a 5600 in my future to go with my b450.
It's about 400 boards getting support to work with 5000 cpus and 6000 gpus in SAM.
Nvidia has released no updates and is not mentioned.