AMD's new SSG Technology blends an SSD with a GPU?!

AMD's says its Solid State Graphics Technology will empower terabytes of capacity on a design card

You can never have enough memory on an expert representation card, AMD authorities said before declaring the organization's next enormous thing at the SIGGRAPH meeting on Monday night. Utilizing what AMD named SSG Technology, or Solid State Graphics Technology, the organization will unite fast NAND memory to its forthcoming line of expert GPUs. 

In doing as such, organization authorities said, it will be conceivable to associate a size more memory to a GPU than is as of now accessible. The GPU with the most memory without further ado is AMD's Radeon FirePro W9100 with 32GB of RAM. 

With SSG Technology, NAND is straightforwardly associated with the GPU center, dwelling inside the design card itself. 

Why this matters: "This will permit us to associate terabytes of memory to the GPU," said David Wattters, AMD's head of Industry Alliances. The implications aren't totally known, however Watters said SSG is as of now having any kind of effect in ultra-high-determination 8K video. What's more, no, 8K video isn't simply twofold that of 4K, either. A Ultra HD 4K video is around 8.3 megapixels. A 8K video is 7680x4320, or around 33 megapixels. As indicated by Watters, current GPUs can play crude 8K video at around 17fps; one with SSG can play the same video at 90+ fps. 


AMD showed such a situation progressively at SIGGRAPH with one framework attempting to play crude 8K video at 17 fps. A second framework furnished with a GPU with SSG couldn't just play the same 8K video at more than 90 fps yet authorities demonstrated it "scouring" or rapidly traveling through the video as easily as somebody would alter 1080P video today.

How it functions 

AMD said that given the generally little measure of memory in a design card today, the GPU must cut up workloads and afterward deal with the converging of those unique parts. At the point when the GPU needs more work, it needs to flag the CPU, which then gets information from the bigger pool of neighborhood framework RAM or essential stockpiling. This acquires inertness. 

With SSG, the CPU is circumvent completely, which extraordinarily decreases dormancy, AMD said. The organization didn't unveil excessively numerous points of interest, yet SSG gives off an impression of being founded on a standard M.2 interface utilizing PCIe. 

SSG would not supplant design RAM itself, for example, GDDR5+ or HBM or HBM2, as it would be too moderate. The organization's new Polaris-based Radeon RX 480, for instance, has around 256GBps of memory data transfer capacity on tap. As well as can be expected escape a solitary M.2 interface today is 1.5GBps to 2GBps. 

AMD authorities said the expansive pool of SSG memory will help constant representation undertakings furthermore change how experts work since that memory is likewise pervasive. An average top of the line CAD laborer may begin the morning by booting up their machine and stacking a model, which could take 60 minutes. SSG would take out that hold up. 

Essentially, the GPU can stream 4K recordings to various screens all the while, and it will permit illustrations for VR headsets to be conveyed speedier. It could lighten a few difficulties with conveying smooth representation to VR headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. 

The SSG memory would be dealt with as a feature of an immense pool of RAM. In the event that the GPU can't discover its information in the neighborhood GDDR5+ or HBM RAM, it would then pursuit the SSG. Simply after that would it need to approach the CPU for what it needs.