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ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

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42 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 22:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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seanhunter ◴[25 Jun 25 07:37 UTC] No.44374590[source]▶
For people (like me) who don’t know what a resizeable BAR is and whether or not they want one: https://www.pcguide.com/gpu/what-is-resizable-bar/
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fn-mote ◴[25 Jun 25 16:34 UTC] No.44379170[source]▶
Article quotes a 10-15% improvement in FPS for some popular games.

I’ll wait to invest the time until this is actually a game changer instead of just hype.

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1. theblazehen ◴[26 Jun 25 07:30 UTC] No.44385071[source]▶
10-15% means you get to buy a cheaper GPU. The fact that we were using a bounce buffer for transfers to a high performance device in the first place seems rather wild to me, although I can understand the legacy reasons