AMD SmartAccess Storage is built to rival Nvidia's own DirectStorage-based technology, RTX IO

AMD has unveiled the first technical implementation of Microsoft's DirectStorage API: SmartAccess Storage. According to AMD's Chief Architect, Frank Azor—and parroted by marketing director, Adam Kozak, in our Computex pre-briefing—it's designed "to get you out of the load screen and into your gameplay faster than ever."

The new SmartAccess Storage tech is "a suite of technologies supporting Microsoft's DirectStorage, that utilises SmartAccess memory, along with new AMD platform technologies...