NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Resizable BAR Support Continues Helping Performance On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 September 2021 at 09:09 AM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 11 Comments.
NVIDIA Resizable BAR GeForce RTX 30 Series Benchmarks

One of the Steam Play (Proton) Windows games on Linux seeing the most benefit from Resizable BAR on the RTX 30 series is DiRT Rally 2.0.

NVIDIA Resizable BAR GeForce RTX 30 Series Benchmarks
NVIDIA Resizable BAR GeForce RTX 30 Series Benchmarks
NVIDIA Resizable BAR GeForce RTX 30 Series Benchmarks

If you enjoy DiRT Rally 2.0, Resizable BAR provides a nice boost to the performance if your system supports it and have a compatible video BIOS.

NVIDIA Resizable BAR GeForce RTX 30 Series Benchmarks
NVIDIA Resizable BAR GeForce RTX 30 Series Benchmarks

But as with the AMD Smart Access Memory / Resizable BAR, it isn't a uniform win but for many games there doesn't end up being a measurable difference.


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