AMD Radeon Pro SSG flash-based memory to boost graphics performance

Published 2016-07-26 08:27 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#5312044

Fox2232

2016-07-26 15:15

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. 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.

Considering that you have to fit M.2 there, Fiji makes sense.

#5312047

Denial

2016-07-26 15:18

I would think Fiji too, but both Anandtech and PC Perspective say it's Polaris.

This new professional graphics card pairs a Polaris GPU with up ot a terabyte of on board solid state storage and seeks to solve one of the biggest hurdles in GP GPU performance when dealing with extremely large datasets which is latency.

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Introduces-Radeon-Pro-SSG-Professional-GPU-Paired-Low-Latency-Flash-Storage http://www.anandtech.com/show/10521/amd-announces-radeon-pro-wx-series-wx-4100-wx-5100-wx-7100-bring-polaris-to-pros Title says it all on the second one.

#5312103

MadGizmo

2016-07-26 17:45

Deleted. Misinterpreted.

#5312106

MadGizmo

2016-07-26 17:50

Hilbert lists the Pro WX series in his article, but that leads to confusion. The SSG card is not part of that family.

#5312136

wiak

2016-07-26 19:17

http://muropaketti.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/amd-capsaicin-radeon-pro-ssg-diagram-20160726.jpg :stewpid: yeah WX series is based on polaris, it seems the SSG family is based on fiji but dunno here is the whole presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKgT5QUU2Q

#5312137

PrMinisterGR

2016-07-26 19:18

Maybe. Currently it's limited to 8x PCI-E -- so technically you could achieve better throughput by just raiding a bunch of SSD's together. AMD's system should technically have a latency advantage, which I guess helps with things like the video scrubbing they were showing off. Although it's unknown how much it helps because who knows what system they were comparing it too.

Latency wise the differences are probably orders of magnitude.

#5312139

wiak

2016-07-26 19:21

Latency wise the differences are probably orders of magnitude.

well its connected directly to the gpu, latency wont be the big issue

#5312143

Denial

2016-07-26 19:27

well its connected directly to the gpu, latency wont be the big issue

That's his point. Otherwise there would be no benefit over just having a raided M.2 setup. I'm sure there is a difference, I'd like to see it compared with a real system though and not AMD's black box. ~800MB/s is way to low for there to be raided SSD's in the system like there is on the SSG card. I definitely like the idea -- I'd just like to see it compared to a similar setup.