AMDs rumored Smart Access Storage could speed up your gaming laptops SSD

Date:
Fri, 06 May 2022 09:59:07 +0000

Description:
Rumored new tech to speed up storage is expected to debut in a Corsair gaming laptop.

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AMD is planning to bring in new tech which is apparently called Smart Access Storage, and so is presumably some kind of storage speeding innovation, although the rumor mill is especially vague on any details here.

This comes from VideoCardz which claims to have received info (via Disclosuzen) on said Smart Access Storage, but as noted, there are no details provided as to exactly what this feature might be so were left to speculate on that score (which well do very shortly).

What we do know, or at least what this nugget from the grapevine tells us, is that a Corsair gaming laptop will be the first device to come with Smart Access Storage on-board and thats scheduled to launch in June.

So its a pretty fair bet that AMD will reveal this storage innovation at Computex 2022, at the end of May, although remain skeptical about all of
this, naturally. Analysis: What will Smart Access Storage be, exactly?

Here comes the total speculation bit, but its an obvious educated guess that Smart Access Storage will be some kind of storage acceleration so games will run better (hence it launching with a gaming laptop from Corsair called Voyager the first ever such notebook from Corsair, we might add, though the firm does have an existing range of desktop gaming PCs).

AMD already has Smart Access Memory (SAM) tech that allows for performance gains by facilitating the CPU to have full access to the GPUs memory (with supporting hardware) this is Team Reds version of Resizable BAR , of course so presumably Smart Access Storage (SAS) will run alongside this.

What it might be, as VideoCardz suggests, is the name for AMDs spin on Microsofts DirectStorage feature, which was officially launched for the PC a couple of months back (after debuting on Xbox Series X). This clever tech not only speeds game loading times primarily on NVMe SSDs but also enables open world games to run more smoothly with swifter loading of assets on-the-fly. Furthermore, with Windows 11 , it could really reduce CPU overhead considerably , too.

SAS could be AMDs own tech, of course, and something entirely different related to speeding the way storage works, but if it is Team Reds take on DirectStorage, which does seem the most likely state of affairs, what we have to bear in mind is that the tech needs to be supported by game developers.
And theres only one title which does so currently, namely Forspoken and even that isnt out until October (assuming it isnt delayed again).

All of which is to say that if Smart Access Storage is indeed based on DirectStorage, it wont be something thats going to make a big splash anytime soon in terms of its real-world rather than theoretical impact.

Time will tell, and hopefully well find out more about whatever this storage feature is if anything in a few weeks at Computex.

That Corsair Voyager laptop, incidentally, is expected to be an all-AMD machine with a Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU and Radeon RX 6800M graphics, and as the debut gaming notebook from the company, it should be a real interesting one
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