Alongside the announcement of Ryzen 7000 processors, AMD revealed a new technology coming to the platform

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Smart Access Storage. It aims to kill loading screens in games, and it’s built on Microsoft’s

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DirectStorage framework. We’re here to break down what Smart Access Storage is and how you can use it.

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Smart Access Storage isn’t available yet, and AMD says it will share more news on the technology

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in the near future. We still have several hints following AMD’s Computex 2022 keynote, though, so let’s dig in.

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AMD Smart Access Storage is a new Smart technology entering AMD’s lineup,

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alongside features like Smart Access Memory for graphics cards. We know very little about

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this technology right now, but AMD confirmed that it uses Microsoft DirectStorage to massively improve game loading times.

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We’ve already seen DirectStorage at work in Forspoken, loading the game in less than

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one second with supported hardware. Smart Access Storage does not replace DirectStorage.

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More about Smart Access Storage

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