AMD announce Radeon Pro SSG

SiDeards73 · 26 Jul 2016 at 08:06

This things crazy, can render an 8k @90hz video

https://m.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4umexi/amd_announces_radeon_pro_ssg_polaris_with_m2_ssds/

YB2ndBEST · 26 Jul 2016 at 08:43

Niiiiiiice

malachi · 26 Jul 2016 at 08:47

Shame it's not for gaming and mainly for video editing or 3D modelling.

sgavan · 26 Jul 2016 at 08:49

Cool, little expensive though isn't it

h4rm0ny · 26 Jul 2016 at 09:12

SiDeards73 said:
This things crazy, can render an 8k @90hz video

https://m.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4umexi/amd_announces_radeon_pro_ssg_polaris_with_m2_ssds/

Woah. I always like it when companies are willing to try something a little different. Clever idea and looks very nice. I like it!

sgavan said:
Cool, little expensive though isn't it

It's not out yet. The price at the end of the article is a devkit. You don't buy that if you're an end user, you buy that if you're Maya or Adobe and you want to make sure your products are ready to support it when it's released.

fs123 · 26 Jul 2016 at 10:19

That card will speed up Graphics/Video creation work significantly. The gpu accesses textures and data directly from the onboard SSD's making the huge 8K performance possible.

Great idea. I wonder if it could be applied to gaming cards in the future too. Expandable gpu memory anyone?

Emlyn_Dewar · 26 Jul 2016 at 12:38

fs123 said:
Great idea. I wonder if it could be applied to gaming cards in the future too. Expandable gpu memory anyone?

Just like the olden days.

eddyr · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:13

Demo of it in action, impressive.

https://twitter.com/RadeonPro/status/757782561313566720?s=08

shankly1985 · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:20

eddyr said:
Demo of it in action, impressive.

https://twitter.com/RadeonPro/status/757782561313566720?s=08

Very impressive indeed. One great thing about Amd is they don't just focus on gaming. There approach to video editing can't be beaten.
Sony Vegas flys through with my 290.. This looks like an unbelievable choice if your work is in content creation. Nothing more worst than a choppy video line.

humbug · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:22

eddyr said:
Demo of it in action, impressive.

https://twitter.com/RadeonPro/status/757782561313566720?s=08

That is impressive.

melmac · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:22

That is very impressive. Wow.

humbug · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:53

Orangey said:
Can't help but notice the only people who posted in this thread are AMD hardcores.

AMD hardcore with an Nvidia GPU :rolleyes:

malachi · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:58

Orangey said:
Can't help but notice the only people who posted in this thread are AMD hardcores.

Im rocking SLI and xfire with my setups so not sure what you mean

ihatelag · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:05

eddyr said:
Demo of it in action, impressive.

https://twitter.com/RadeonPro/status/757782561313566720?s=08

Wow! That is pretty impressive! It's great seeing RTG doing amazing things!

Klo · 26 Jul 2016 at 15:08

Pretty cool stuff!

Hotwired · 26 Jul 2016 at 16:21

Shall I imagine the salt content of the deleted posts or assume it's the usual trash talking.

The demo looked impressive, nice idea to give the card some SSD space of its own.

Doubtless not every process will benefit from it but gigantic video editing doesn't sound bad.

shankly1985 · 26 Jul 2016 at 17:26

SSG thing for the now and future? Looks very promising, just another technology AMD is first at

https://semiaccurate.com/2016/07/25/amd-puts-massive-ssds-gpus-calls-ssg/?sf31777054=1

Gregster · 26 Jul 2016 at 17:37

As someone who does a good deal of editing, that is impressive. I dare say it will be a bit out of my price range though

Mercury464 · 26 Jul 2016 at 17:46

This seems to have potential, it's an innovative way in its simplicity, to solve an architectural problem that otherwise seems difficult to get around. I definitely think it could work in consumer level products in the near future.

bru · 26 Jul 2016 at 18:15

Interesting idea, I'm sure it will take a while before they get it all sorted out, but it certainly has potential for certain workloads.