AMD Unveils Radeon Solid State Storage Architecture And 1TB Radeon Pro SSG For Massive Pro Graphics
AMD's new SSG Technology blends an SSD with a GPU?!
AMD's says its Solid State Graphics Technology will enable terabytes of storage on a graphics card.
You can never have enough memory on a professional graphics card, AMD officials said before announcing the company's next big thing at the SIGGRAPH conference on Monday night. Using what AMD dubbed SSG Technology, or Solid State Graphics Technology, the company will graft high-speed NAND memory to its upcoming line of professional GPUs.
In doing so, company officials said, it will be possible to connect a magnitude more memory to a GPU than is currently available. The GPU with the most memory presently is AMD’s Radeon FirePro W9100 with 32GB of RAM.
With SSG Technology, NAND is directly connected to the GPU core, residing within the graphics card itself.
Why this matters: “This will allow us to connect terabytes of memory to the GPU,” said David Wattters, AMD’s head of Industry Alliances. The ramifications aren’t entirely known, but Watters said SSG is already making a difference in ultra-high-resolution 8K video. And no, 8K video isn’t just double that of 4K, either. An Ultra HD 4K video is about 8.3 megapixels. An 8K video is 7680x4320, or about 33 megapixels. According to Watters, current GPUs can play raw 8K video at around 17fps; one with SSG can play the same video at 90+ fps.
AMD demonstrated such a scenario in real time at SIGGRAPH with one system struggling to play raw 8K video at 17 fps. A second system outfitted with a GPU with SSG could not only play the same 8K video at more than 90 fps but officials showed it "scrubbing" or quickly moving through the video as effortlessly as someone would edit 1080P video today.
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