AMD has just put an SSD on a graphics card

By Darren Allan

AMD has announced a new range of affordable Radeon Pro WX graphics solutions for workstations and professional use, along with a fresh graphics card – the Radeon Pro SSG – which runs with a whole new concept of incorporating a large SSD to power up its performance.

So let’s start with the latter, as doubtless that’s the one which has immediately grabbed your attention. Obviously a graphics card can only carry a relatively limited amount of memory, and when it comes to working with large datasets in the likes of science and engineering or heavy video/rendering work, the truth is that this memory isn’t nearly enough.

So in these cases, rather than having to pull data over from the system memory (or drive) which slows things down considerably, the Radeon Pro SSG brings a 1TB SSD directly on-board the card to act as a frame buffer and allow big datasets to be loaded up and dealt with locally, for far better overall performance.

AMD notes that the Pro SSG will be ideal for all manner of demanding applications in scientific fields through to VR content creation and real-time post-production of 8K video.

The graphics card has already been demonstrated rendering a raw 8K video …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components