AMD Radeon Pro SSG flash-based memory to boost graphics performance
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SirDremor
Interesting, though a bit unclear.
Is it just a special purpose SSD? How do main GPU learn of this SSD? Through software layer or some other form of connection?
Yogi
I'd love to know if it requires special firmware to talk to the GPU over some variation of the X-fire protocol (maybe?) or if any PCIE SSD would work.
And while I'm speculating wildly, what are the chances of this tech coming to consumers e.g. partitioning a section of your SSD to act as additional VRAM , allowing nightmare mode on Doom for example?
Lane
JonasBeckman
Lane
LocoDiceGR
Blue Theme hah? Interesting...
About the card, well nice technology from amd once again.
Fox2232
For those who did not get it as it seems bit confusing for many.
This is Graphics card with additional M.2 slot on board to increase available data storage for purpose of caching/editing.
Undying
fantaskarsef
Ah, now I get it, I thought it was indeed running via PCIe lanes, not onboard with the GPU itself.
geogan
Good idea for 4K/8K editing alright.
So the GPU will have access to a large buffer with copy of the timeline, but the thing I can't understand is, won't the CPU also need the timeline buffer too most of the time? So will there be a big overhead constantly keeping both the main memory (CPU) and this graphics card buffer (GPU) in sync with each other?
I mean if the CPU does some sort of operation on the frames, then the entire SSD on this card will have to be rewritten with updated data from main memory?
Or can the software be written so there is only a single copy of the timeline framebuffer in the GPU/SSD card framebuffer only, and the CPU can modify this also?
zer0_c0ol
8k/90+ frames.. well damn
Turanis
Innovation
AMD Unveils Radeon Solid State Storage Architecture And 1TB Radeon Pro SSG For Massive Pro Graphics
Raw 8K video, FPS=17, Rate=848 MB/s
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Raw 8K video, FPS=92, Rate=4590 MB/s
Denial
Anandtech is reporting these as Polaris based, for $10,000?
The M.2 slot idea is kind of cool but it's not much different then just having your working files on a M.2 drive on the motherboard.
Picolete
"Next gen memory"?
zer0_c0ol
Denial
Yogi
Proof of Concept waiting on xpoint memory to become available?
zer0_c0ol
Denial
Ryu5uzaku
https://twitter.com/FudzillaNews/status/757774661081899008 Sure it is Fudzilla. But Fiji would make more sense.
10 000$ well it ain't only for the hardware so understandable.
The chip on the ssg might be fiji. Well there is a picture of the board from the backside and people are thinking that it is a fiji chip.