# AMD says its Mext software keeps up to 99% of server performance with half the DRAM by moving cold pages to NVMe

The headline figure comes from one Spark workload on Azure, and an AMD chip-design test kept 80% of performance with 75% of memory on flash. Customers must buy a license, and the Linux driver is closed source.

- Published: 2026-11-13T06:16:33.119Z
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AMD is marketing software as a response to the shortage of server memory. Its Mext product runs on Epyc servers and uses a machine-learning model to predict which memory pages a workload will need. It keeps those pages in DRAM and moves the…

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