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I'll preface this by saying that testing for this video concluded at the beginning of February, before this list was available. Sponsored videos take a while in the pipeline. The games chosen for testing were informed by which games had the best performance improvement with SAM enabled in the RX 6800/6900 reviews.
 
Yes, Nvidia is individually validating specific games, but if the theory is that resizable BAR alone is the reason for performance uplift, games that improve on AMD should also see similar improvement on Nvidia unless the driver is explicitly preventing them from using resizable BAR or otherwise interfering. The fact that AMD had no such compatibility list points to the conclusion that either Nvidia rushed this like we said, or AMD's memory management was just that bad to begin with (unlikely given Nvidia's claims of "similar" / 10% performance improvements).

I'll preface this by saying that testing for this video concluded at the beginning of February, before this list was available. Sponsored videos take a while in the pipeline. The games chosen for testing were informed by which games had the best performance improvement with SAM enabled in the RX 6800/6900 reviews.
 
Yes, Nvidia is individually validating specific games, but if the theory is that resizable BAR alone is the reason for performance uplift, games that improve on AMD should also see similar improvement on Nvidia unless the driver is explicitly preventing them from using resizable BAR or otherwise interfering. The fact that AMD had no such compatibility list points to the conclusion that either Nvidia rushed this like we said, or AMD's memory management was just that bad to begin with (unlikely given Nvidia's claims of "similar" / 10% performance improvements).

Enmotus isn't a commonly known company among gamers, but that might change with Fuzedrive, an SLC-infused SSD that claims to have "AI"...
 
 
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Enmotus isn't a commonly known company among gamers, but that might change with Fuzedrive, an SLC-infused SSD that claims to have "AI"...
 
 
Buy Enmotus FuzeDrive 1.6TB SSD (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/DETLLGS

Enmotus isn't a commonly known company among gamers, but that might change with Fuzedrive, an SLC-infused SSD that claims to have "AI"...
 
 
Buy Enmotus FuzeDrive 1.6TB SSD (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/DETLLGS

Enmotus isn't a commonly known company among gamers, but that might change with Fuzedrive, an SLC-infused SSD that claims to have "AI"...
 
 
Buy Enmotus FuzeDrive 1.6TB SSD (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/DETLLGS

After big promises to gamers about the RTX 3060’s performance for gaming and LACK of performance for mining, Nvidia’s new GPU has finally released. Will you be able to get one?
 
 
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After big promises to gamers about the RTX 3060’s performance for gaming and LACK of performance for mining, Nvidia’s new GPU has finally released. Will you be able to get one?
 
 
Buy a GeForce RTX 3060
On Amazon (PAID LINK): TBD
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Nvidia thinks they can pull a fast one on gamers looking to grab an RTX 3060, but we know you're smarter than that - Let's dig deeper and see if we can figure out why they're launching cryptocurrency mining cards...
 
 

Nvidia thinks they can pull a fast one on gamers looking to grab an RTX 3060, but we know you're smarter than that - Let's dig deeper and see if we can figure out why they're launching cryptocurrency mining cards...
 
 

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PCI Express gen 4 has been around for over a year and a half now – But it hasn’t really made much of a difference… Does that change with Ryzen 5000, RTX 3000, and Radeon 6000?
 
 
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Nvidia marketed the RTX 3090 as an 8K gaming GPU and received a lot of criticism for not REALLY being up for it. Can AMD beat Nvidia at their own game with the Radeon RX 6900 XT and a good overclock?
 
 
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Nvidia marketed the RTX 3090 as an 8K gaming GPU and received a lot of criticism for not REALLY being up for it. Can AMD beat Nvidia at their own game with the Radeon RX 6900 XT and a good overclock?
 
 
Get the limited edition foil GPU shirt: https://www.lttstore.com/products/foilgpu
 
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Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

Thanks to Seasonic for sponsoring this video! Learn more about their PSU's at https://lmg.gg/Xb82g
 
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Nvidia marketed the RTX 3090 as an 8K gaming GPU and received a lot of criticism for not REALLY being up for it. Can AMD beat Nvidia at their own game with the Radeon RX 6900 XT and a good overclock?
 
 
Get the limited edition foil GPU shirt: https://www.lttstore.com/products/foilgpu
 
Buy AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/cHrop
Buy Nvidia RTX 3090 (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/OqXR
Buy LG SIGNATURE OLED88Z9PUA TV (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/kHTwG0
 
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Windows 10 is known to come with a lot of telemetry and other “features” that reduce privacy in order to work as “software as a service”. Thankfully, there’s an effort to ameliorate this…
 
 
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Yeah, we only received ours I believe in mid December despite ordering it basically ASAP, and we were buried under the eternal TechTober releases at the time so it took until now to get to.
 
This title is basically the same as Anandtech's, just without the review bit tacked on at the end. I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.

Yeah, we only received ours I believe in mid December despite ordering it basically ASAP, and we were buried under the eternal TechTober releases at the time so it took until now to get to.
 
This title is basically the same as Anandtech's, just without the review bit tacked on at the end. I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.

Yeah, we only received ours I believe in mid December despite ordering it basically ASAP, and we were buried under the eternal TechTober releases at the time so it took until now to get to.
 
This title is basically the same as Anandtech's, just without the review bit tacked on at the end. I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.

Yeah, we only received ours I believe in mid December despite ordering it basically ASAP, and we were buried under the eternal TechTober releases at the time so it took until now to get to.
 
This title is basically the same as Anandtech's, just without the review bit tacked on at the end. I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.

Not long before the Xbox Series consoles released, a strange listing sprang up on AliExpress: A motherboard with an AMD A9-9820, which until now, has only ever been used in the Xbox One S…
 
 
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Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

Not long before the Xbox Series consoles released, a strange listing sprang up on AliExpress: A motherboard with an AMD A9-9820, which until now, has only ever been used in the Xbox One S…
 
 
Check out the motherboard at https://lmg.gg/wGqaV
 
Buy Noctua NH-U12S (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/gNJXAI
 
Buy Corsair MP600 NVMe SSD (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/LiAbesi
 
Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

Not long before the Xbox Series consoles released, a strange listing sprang up on AliExpress: A motherboard with an AMD A9-9820, which until now, has only ever been used in the Xbox One S…
 
 
Check out the motherboard at https://lmg.gg/wGqaV
 
Buy Noctua NH-U12S (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/gNJXAI
 
Buy Corsair MP600 NVMe SSD (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/LiAbesi
 
Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

I don't think it's that simple. Until recently, VRAM never really exceeded 8GB for most gaming cards, and games didn't use that much of it. Resizable BAR / SAM only really makes sense when moving a lot of data around from what I can tell (fewer "bank switches"), so its effects would have been limited and not really worth the effort in previous generations. This is exemplified in the fact that not every title sees a big benefit from it.
 
My take on it is that AMD took the initiative here after seeing what devs were doing with the Xbox Series and PS5 consoles, and now everyone else has to catch up. In the end, it'll have been a short-lived gimmick that gave them an advantage over Nvidia, similar to how "RTX" gave Nvidia an early advantage in ray tracing despite it also being a standard thing in both DirectX and Vulkan.

After promising RTX 3090 performance for $500 less, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT has a lot to live up to.. Can it POSSIBLY be that good?
 
 
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I don't think it's that simple. Until recently, VRAM never really exceeded 8GB for most gaming cards, and games didn't use that much of it. Resizable BAR / SAM only really makes sense when moving a lot of data around from what I can tell (fewer "bank switches"), so its effects would have been limited and not really worth the effort in previous generations. This is exemplified in the fact that not every title sees a big benefit from it.
 
My take on it is that AMD took the initiative here after seeing what devs were doing with the Xbox Series and PS5 consoles, and now everyone else has to catch up. In the end, it'll have been a short-lived gimmick that gave them an advantage over Nvidia, similar to how "RTX" gave Nvidia an early advantage in ray tracing despite it also being a standard thing in both DirectX and Vulkan.