AMD’s new RX6000 Series graphics cards have been creating significant positive hype, with the company sharing extremely strong performance benchmarks versus the competition. One of the features driving such potential for the new cards is AMD’s Smart Access Memory, but Nvidia has already announced that it is working on a similar feature for use with all its RTX 30 Series cards.
The reveal comes via Gamers Nexus, who reportedly had confirmation from Nvidia that the company already has the feature working internally and will be looking to roll it out to RTX 30 Series graphics cards through software updates. It appears that the updates will not be ready in time for the AMD RX 6000 Series launch, so direct comparisons will not be possible until later.
AMD’s Smart Access Memory was detailed in the announcements for the RX 6000 graphics cards, and the company reported the feature would produce performance gains of between five and eleven percent on a range of games tested. However, AMD requires gamers to have both an RX 6000 Series graphics card and a Zen 3 CPU for the feature to work, whereas Nvidia claims its alternative will work on all CPUs.
The Smart Access Memory features works by allowing the CPU to have access to the graphics card memory, which runs at a much faster speed than standard system memory, resulting in improved performance. Nvidia states that the ability for the CPU to access graphics card memory is part of the PCI Express specification, which is why its solution will work on any CPU. However, it is not known whether this solution will work as well as AMD’s, which has clearly been designed into both the CPUs and graphics hardware. Apart from the RTX 3090, Nvidia’s cards will have less memory available for the feature than the 16 GB on AMD’s announced cards, although the RTX 3080 may get a big boost from using faster GDDR6X memory.
Given the usual cost of graphics performance, the fact that gamers will get an extra boost from their new hardware is great news. If it can match the five to eleven percent performance jump, Nvidia will help make its cards more competitive in performance per dollar, where AMD currently wins. Even better, with both hardware companies utilizing a graphics memory solution, more games will be optimized to take advantage of the feature, and the potential benefits in the future could be even greater.
Gamers can look forward to seeing even more performance benchmarks, once both AMD and Nvidia have the cards and drivers in the market which support the feature.
Nvidia RTX 30 Series graphics cards are available now.
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