AMD have announced the Radeon Pro SSG, a new GPU you that includes M.2 slots for adding NAND SSDs.
The goal is to vastly increase the local storage available to the video card, reports Anandtech.
Even AMD’s largest card currently tops out at 32GB, and while this is a fair amount, there are workloads that can use more. This is particular the case for workloads with massive datasets (oil & gas), or as AMD demonstrated, scrubbing through an 8K video file.
Current cards can spill over to system memory, and while the PCIe bus is fast, it’s still much slower than local memory, plus it is subject to the latency of the relatively long trip and waiting on the CPU to address requests.
Local NAND storage, by comparison, offers much faster round trips, though on paper the bandwidth isn’t as good.
The card is currently available as a developer kit directly from AMD for an incredible $9,999.
The card is expected to be available sometime in 2017.
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