ULA is the most common geometry exp lo ited in array signal processing. In the beamforming operation, employing the ULA leads to obtaining narrower beamwidth with respect to other geometries in similar element numbers. Recently, Shirvani and Akbari proposed a new array by adding two elements to the ULA in top and bottom of the array axis, named as SAA. Th is new array offers a considerable imp rovement in DOA estimation performance in detection and resolution of signal sources placed at angles close to the array endfires. In this article, the performance of the proposed SAA is investigated especially in beamforming and co mpared with ULA. LMS and NLMS algorith ms that are popular adaptive beamforming methods are used for evaluation and co mparing the performance of SAA and ULA. Considering array factor, mean square erro r and bit error rate metrics, simu lation results show improved convergence speed and higher data transmission accuracy in different signal source locations, boresight angles as well as endfire ones, for SAA with respect to ULA.