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.

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AMD Radeon RX 480 versus Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080: Solid reasons individuals will go for RX 480

Godfrey Barasa | Jun 27, 2016 10:11 AM EDT

NVIDIA's new leader GeForce GTX 1080 is the most progressive gaming illustrations card ever made.

NVIDIA's new leader GeForce GTX 1080 is the most progressive gaming illustrations card ever made. (Photograph : Facebook/Nvidia )

AMD Radeon RX 480 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 are the best realistic cards in the business sector with the expanding requirement for virtual reality (VR). While AMD RX 480 can't match Nvidia GTX 1080 regarding execution, for a few reasons clients may go for the previous.

AMD appears to have arranged everything successfully with its most recent Radeon RX 480. With Nvidia's most recent GPUs encountering lack in light of popularity, AMD seems to have profited by the issue to supply a greater amount of its realistic cards.

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AMD's first shipment of the RX 480 GPU is hitting the United States stores, and the organization has supplied the cards in excess. A client reported by means of Reddit that one Microcenter store in Overland Park Kansas will get 100 units of the AMD RX 480 on June 28, which is colossal contrasted with the 4 Nvidia GTX 1080s the same store got amid the dispatch.

At present, the GTX 1080 is as yet encountering lack as far as supply, with most stores that still have the cards restricting them to one and only card for each client. Despite the fact that the GTX 1080 Pascal-based GPUs dispatched simply a month ago, it seems like most retail outlets are coming up short on stock, with the dominant part offering out the cards when they get them from the maker.

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 is the quickest card that the organization has ever constructed. The GTX 1080 depends on the most recent 16nm Fin Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) process. The card accompanies an aggregate of 2560 CUDA centers.

The CUDA centers are fundamental to the elite and low power utilization connected with the Nvidia's GPU. It is accounted for that the GTX 1080 is 25 percent speedier than the past era GTX Titan X. Similar to that is insufficient, the include load up (outsider model) is quicker since it has been overclocked and modified in differing routes by the outsider producers.

With respect to execution, the same can't be said in regards to AMD's RX 480. Be that as it may, GTX 1080 is a great deal more costly with the Founder's Edition going for $699, as per Gearnuke. AMD RX 480 is estimated at $249.

Despite the fact that clients may go for the GTX 1080 GPU, valuing and accessibility may serve as a difficulty.

32-Core CPUs From Intel and AMD

If your CPU has only a single core, it's officially a dinosaur. In fact,quad-core computing is now commonplace; you can even get laptop computers with four cores today. But we're really just at the beginning of the core wars: Leadership in the CPU market will soon be decided by who has the most cores, not who has the fastest clock speed.

What is it? With the gigahertz race largely abandoned, both AMDand Intel are trying to pack more cores onto a die in order to continue to improve processing power and aid with multitasking operations. Miniaturizing chips further will be key to fitting these cores and other components into a limited space. Intel will roll out 32-nanometer processors (down from today's 45nm chips) in 2009.

When is it coming? Intel has been very good about sticking to its road map. A six-core CPU based on the Itanium design should be out imminently, when Intel then shifts focus to a brand-new architecture called Nehalem, to be marketed as Core i7. Core i7 will feature up to eight cores, with eight-core systems available in 2009 or 2010. (And an eight-core AMD project called Montreal is reportedly on tap for 2009.)

After that, the timeline gets fuzzy. Intel reportedly canceled a 32-core project called Keifer, slated for 2010, possibly because of its complexity (the company won't confirm this, though). That many cores requires a new way of dealing with memory; apparently you can't have 32 brains pulling out of one central pool of RAM. But we still expect cores to proliferate when the kinks are ironed out: 16 cores by 2011 or 2012 is plausible (when transistors are predicted to drop again in size to 22nm), with 32 cores by 2013 or 2014 easily within reach. Intel says "hundreds" of cores may come even farther down the line