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A small aperture sliding over a large framebuffer, beside the whole framebuffer mapped at once

PCIe Resizable BAR and Modern GPUs β€” Intel Arc, NVIDIA and AMD

Resizable BAR lets the CPU map a GPU’s whole framebuffer instead of peering at it through a 256MB window. Intel calls it required for Arc, NVIDIA enables it per game, AMD sells it as Smart Access Memory β€” and for AI work it changes the transfer, not the maths.

7th August 2026 Β· 11 min Β· 2296 words Β· Damien Dye