Windows 10: GeForce RTX 30 Series Performance Accelerates with Resizable BAR

Brink · Mar 30, 2021

Resizable BAR utilizes an advanced feature of PCI Express to increase performance in certain games. As of March 30th, 2021, Resizable BAR is supported for GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards and laptops.

For desktops to take advantage of Resizable BAR, users need a GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics card with a supported VBIOS, a compatible CPU, compatible motherboard, motherboard SBIOS update, and our newest GeForce Game Ready driver.

For GeForce RTX 30 Series laptops, please check with the manufacturer to see if Resizable BAR is supported on a specific model.

For instructions on how to enable Resizable BAR, continue reading.

What Is Resizable BAR?

Resizable BAR is an optional PCI Express interface technology. As you move through a world in a game, GPU memory (VRAM) constantly transfers textures, shaders and geometry via many small CPU to GPU transfers.

With the ever-growing size of modern game assets, this results in a lot of transfers. Using Resizable BAR, assets can instead be requested as-needed and sent in full, so the CPU can efficiently access the entire frame buffer. And if multiple requests are made, transfers can occur concurrently, rather than queuing.

Installation Steps

To successfully activate Resizable BAR on a desktop PC, please follow these steps in order, referring to the expanded installation instructions below:

Confirm you have a compatible CPU & CPU chipset (see list below)

Confirm you have a compatible motherboard (see list below)

Update your motherboard SBIOS, if required, by installing an update from the manufacturer. Then enable Resizable BAR support in your motherboardâs BIOS interface

Update to the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver (version 465.89 WHQL at the time of writing, released March 30th, 2021), or a later version

If you have a GeForce RTX 3060, youâre good to go. If you have a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, or 3090, then you may require an updated VBIOS

If you have a Founders Edition graphics card from NVIDIA, get your VBIOS update tool directly from our website. If you have a custom partner card, get the update tool from their site (see list below)

Verify Resizable BAR is enabled in the NVIDIA Control Panel (see instructions below)

What CPUs and CPU Platforms Support Resizable BAR?

Resizable BAR requires CPU and motherboard compatibility, and a Resizable BAR SBIOS update. As of March 30th, 2021, the following CPU chipsets and CPUs officially support Resizable BAR on GeForce RTX 30 Series desktop GPUs:

Desktop CPU and Chipset Support

AMD Chipsets AMD 400 Series (on motherboards with AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5xxx CPU support) AMD 500 Series
AMD CPUs AMD Zen 3 CPUs Ryzen 3 5xxx Ryzen 5 5xxx Ryzen 7 5xxx Ryzen 9 5xxx
Intel Chipsets Intel 10th Gen Z490 H470 B460 H410 Intel 11th Gen S All 11th Gen chipsets available as of March 30th, 2021
Intel CPUs Intel 10th Gen Intel 11th Gen S-Series i9-10xxx CPUs i9-11xxx CPUs i7-10xxx CPUs i7-11xxx CPUs i5-10xxx CPUs i5-11xxx CPUs i3-10xxx CPUs
Motherboard Support

NVIDIA is working with motherboard manufacturers around the world to bring Resizable BAR support to compatible products. As of March 30th, 2021, the following manufacturers are offering SBIOS updates for select motherboards to enable Resizable BAR with GeForce RTX 30 Series desktop graphics cards:

Motherboard Manufacturers Supporting Resizable BAR ASUS ASRock COLORFUL EVGA GIGABYTE MSI
Head to the manufacturersâ website to discover whether your motherboard is compatible, and to download and install updates if available. Additionally, please refer to the manufacturerâs documentation for enabling Resizable BAR support in the BIOS after installation of new firmware.

Please note, some motherboard manufacturers have unofficially extended Resizable BAR support to prior generation products. Your mileage may vary utilizing these solutions.

Enabling Resizable BAR On Your GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Card

Having updated your motherboard, youâll need to update your GPU, and download and install a GeForce Game Ready Driver, released March 30th, 2021, or later.

Game Ready Driver Update

In practice, the performance benefits of Resizable BAR can vary substantially from game to game. In our testing, weâve found some titles benefit from a few percent, up to 12%. However, there are also titles that see a decrease in performance, so NVIDIA will be pre-testing titles and using game profiles to enable Resizable BAR only when it has a positive performance impact. That way you wonât have to worry about bugs or performance decreases, and wonât have to rely on the community to benchmark each title and discover whether Resizable BAR is beneficial in the games youâre playing.

Popular, graphically demanding titles can run faster and smoother with Resizable BAR, further improving your experience

With the release of our GeForce Game Ready Driver on March 30th, 2021, weâre enabling Resizable BAR support on all GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs, and expanding support to an additional 9 games, for a total of 17:

GeForce RTX 30 Series Resizable BAR Supported Games As of March 30th, 2021 Assassin's Creed Valhalla Battlefield V Borderlands 3 Control Cyberpunk 2077 Death Stranding DIRT 5 F1 2020 Forza Horizon 4 Gears 5 Godfall Hitman 2 Hitman 3 Horizon Zero Dawn Metro Exodus Red Dead Redemption 2 Watch Dogs Legion
As we identify additional titles that benefit from Resizable BAR, weâll introduce support via Game Ready Driver updates.

Before proceeding further through the Resizable BAR process, please download and install the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver, released March 30th, 2021, or later, and reboot your PC.

VBIOS Update

GeForce RTX 3060 desktop graphics cards launched February 25th, 2021 with a pre-installed Resizable BAR VBIOS. If you purchased one, all you need is a compatible motherboard and motherboard SBIOS, described above, and our newest Game Ready Driver.

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080 and 3090 desktop graphics cards may require a VBIOS update.

For GeForce RTX 30 Series Founders Edition graphics cards manufactured by NVIDIA, please head to our knowledge base, where you can download the firmware update tool, follow how-to instructions, and get further information. If your system does not support Resizable BAR there is no benefit to installing the firmware update, so please check you meet all other requirements first.

Firmware updates for custom GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards manufactured by our partners can be found on their websites. The links provided below are for your convenience only; partner hardware vendors are responsible for functionality and support of GPU VBIOS updates:

ASUS: Select GeForce RTX 30 Series --> Model --> Support --> Driver & Utility

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EVGA

Gainward: Select GPU --> Tool

Galax

GIGABYTE

INNO3D

MSI: Select GPU --> Support --> Utility --> choose MSI Dragon Center or MSI Live Update

Palit: Select GPU --> Tool

PNY

Zotac

If an update for your specific model is not yet available, do not install the Founders Edition firmware or other custom firmware as it is not compatible.

Verify Resizable BAR is Working

After youâve updated all your components and installed our Game Ready Driver, you can verify Resizable BAR is working on your system by opening the NVIDIA Control Panel.

On the bottom left of the Control Panel, simply click âSystem Informationâ, and in the new window look for âResizable BARâ on the right. If it says âYesâ, youâre set.

If it says âNoâ, please ensure Resizable BAR is enabled in your motherboardâs BIOS interface and reboot your PC.
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Source: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...e-bar-support/

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NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX SUPER Series GPUs

GeForce RTX 20-Series graphics cards launched last year, bringing real-time ray tracing and best in class performance to PC gamers worldwide. Now, we’re introducing new GeForce RTX 20-Series SUPER graphics cards, which increase performance by up to 25%, giving you the power to experience the latest blockbusters with max settings at even faster framerates.

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The GeForce RTX 20-Series’ performance and real-time ray tracing capabilities are made possible by numerous industry-firsts:

Architectural improvements that increase the efficiency of Turing-architecture GPUs by 1.4x compared to our previous-gen Pascal architecture, delivering unmatched performance per watt, and cooler, quieter gaming

Ray Tracing Cores (RT Cores) for programmable ray tracing acceleration, making real-time ray tracing a reality, at 60 FPS+, with high levels of detail

Tensor Cores that accelerate AI tasks and game performance

GDDR6 VRAM and increased cache that delivers the bandwidth and capacity to enjoy high resolution gaming with maximum performance

Concurrent Float and INT calculations that improve performance in the latest games

Variable Rate Shading, part of the NVIDIA Adaptive Shading technique, which accelerates performance in Wolfenstein: Youngblood and other titles. And support for Mesh Shading, Texture Space Shading and other advanced shading techniques that enable developers to craft more detailed and realistic worlds

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER: Faster than GTX 1080, 7+7 TOPs, 57 Tensor TFLOPs

The GeForce RTX 2060 receives a supercharged update for its SUPER release, thanks to the addition of an extra 2 GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM, a Memory Bandwidth increase of 33.2%, plus an additional 256 CUDA Cores, 32 Tensor Cores and 4 RT Cores.

Together, these improvements accelerate gameplay on the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER by up to 22%, for a 15% performance advantage, on average, versus the GeForce RTX 2060.

The GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is also noticeably faster than the GeForce GTX 1080

At $399, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER delivers fantastic game performance and enables you to play ray-traced games at 60 FPS at 1920x1080, with other game settings maxed out. The original GeForce RTX 2060, the first step up to RTX, is available starting at $349.

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER: Faster than GTX 1080 Ti, 9+9 TOPs, 73 Tensor TFLOPs

The GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER features an extra 256 CUDA Cores, 32 Tensor Cores, and 4 RT Cores, that together with a 150 MHz Boost Clock bump increase game performance by up to 25%, compared to the original GeForce RTX 2070:

The GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is also faster than the GTX 1080 Ti, our previous-gen flagship

Furthermore, the $499 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, available July 9th, adds a NVLINK SLI connector for gamers wanting additional performance in select games and apps.

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER: Faster than Titan Xp, 11+11 TOPs, 89 Tensor TFLOPs

The Turing-architecture GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is our fastest SUPER GPU, effortlessly outpacing the previous-gen $1,200 Pascal-architecture NVIDIA TITAN Xp , and every other GeForce GPU apart from the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which remains king of the hill.

Compared to the previously released GeForce RTX 2080, the new SUPER GPU is equipped with additional CUDA, RT and Tensor Cores, as well as 15.5 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM that increases memory bandwidth to 496.1 GB/s (a 10.7% improvement).

Furthermore, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU sees its GPU Boost Clock increased by 105 MHz to 1815 MHz, which combined with the other hardware enhancements improves all of its performance metrics.

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be available starting at $699 on July 23rd.

Ray Tracing: Only Possible On RTX, Now Even Better With SUPER

Ray tracing is the only way to add truly realistic effects that have unprecedented fidelity and accuracy, and Turing-architecture GeForce RTX 20-Series GPUs remain the only GPUs that enable you to experience them with great performance. To date, we’ve marvelled at real-time lifelike reflections in Battlefield V, jaw-dropping global illumination lighting in Metro Exodus, multi-layered pixel-perfect shadows in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and the path traced remastering of Quake II in Quake II RTX.

In the coming year, blockbusters such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, ControlTM, Cyberpunk 2077, DOOM Eternal, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, Watch DogsTM: Legion, and Wolfenstein®: YoungbloodTM will be embracing ray tracing, giving their players the most immersive and realistic gameplay possible.

Even more games are adding ray tracing - for announcements and first details stay tuned to GeForce.com

With support from the most popular game engines, and blockbusters adopting ray tracing in droves, GeForce RTX 20-Series GPUs are the only GPUs capable of giving you the definitive experience with ray tracing enabled. And with our new SUPER GPUs, ray tracing performance is even faster.

Quake II RTX, available to try for free, is the first game with lighting, shadows and other effects rendered solely via path tracing, an advanced and intensive form of ray tracing.

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With the extra RT Cores in SUPER GPUs, performance in the path-traced Quake II RTX increases by over 15%, enabling the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to exceed 60 FPS, and evenly match the GeForce RTX 2070.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider features immersive real-time ray-traced shadowing that greatly enhances fidelity in the game’s jungle, and in numerous other locations throughout Lara’s latest adventure.

Metro Exodus introduced gamers to real-time ray-traced global illumination, adding realistic world lighting for the first time in any game ever, resulting in stunning scenes that were previously impossible to render.

Battlefield V demonstrated the possibilities of ray tracing to the world, wowing gamers with realistic ray-traced reflections that reflected surrounding detail, and increased the quality of other reflections to previously unseen levels.

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Announcing The Super Fast. Supernatural Bundle

For a limited time, starting on July 9th, qualifying GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics cards and desktops will include copies of both ControlTM and Wolfenstein(R): YoungbloodTM, two games that take full advantage of SUPER GPUs.

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Control’s use of real-time ray-traced reflections, contact shadows and diffuse global illumination make it one of the most graphically advanced games to date. And as the PC platform of choice for Wolfenstein: Youngblood, we’re working with Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames to enhance the game with cutting-edge ray-traced effects, and performance-accelerating NVIDIA Adaptive Shading.

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When purchasing a participating product, please check listings closely for bundle participation and availability, as bundle codes cannot be granted for non-participating products.

Introducing FrameView, An In-Game Performance and GPU Monitoring Tool

Alongside our SUPER GPUs, we’re launching FrameView, an application for measuring framerates, frame times, power, and performance-per-watt on a wide range of graphics cards. Detailed metrics are presented in real-time with a configurable overlay, and reported to a log file for convenient analysis, leveraging PresentMon for analytics.

FrameView works with all major graphics APIs and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps. Plus, it enables real-time power measurement through APIs, recording chip and board power without the need for special physical equipment, all while also capturing detailed performance information.

For further information, and the app itself, come back to GeForce.com on July 9th.

GeForce RTX 20-Series SUPER GPUs: Faster, Better, Super. Available Starting July 9th

Turing is the most advanced GPU architecture available, and the GeForce RTX graphics cards that use it are the fastest gaming cards on the planet. With the launch of our GeForce RTX SUPER graphics cards, joining the existing RTX 2060 (starting at $349) and RTX 2080 Ti (starting at $999), the RTX family is best-in-class.

Whether you want the best possible performance, cutting-edge ray-traced effects, support for performance-accelerating tech like DLSS and Variable Rate Shading, support for future graphics tech like Mesh Shading, or simply the best power efficiency, SUPER comes out on top in every way, and is ready for all future games and experiences.

Furthermore, GeForce RTX SUPER GPUs have the support of partners worldwide, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac, who will begin shipping custom variants of our GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics cards on July 9th, and the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER on July 23rd. With models featuring custom coolers, additional out of the box overclocks, closed loop cooling, and water cooling, you’ll be able to find a SUPER GPU for your specific needs.

[table][tr][td]GeForce RTX Graphics Card Lineup[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Graphics Card[/td] [td]Release Date[/td] [td]MSRP (USD)[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]GeForce RTX 2080 Ti[/td] [td]Out now[/td] [td]Starts at $999[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER[/td] [td]July 23rd, 2019[/td] [td]Starts at $699[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER[/td] [td]July 9th, 2019[/td] [td]Starts at $499[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER[/td] [td]July 9th, 2019[/td] [td]Starts at $399[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]GeForce RTX 2060[/td] [td]Out now[/td] [td]Starts at $349[/td] [/tr] [/table]

For more on the great games that will play best on whichever SUPER graphics card you buy, stay tuned to GeForce.com.

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