Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics keeps big data close to the GPU
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AMD threw the latest in its series of Capsaicin events at the SIGGRAPH conference this evening. At the show, the company announced the Radeon Pro SSG, for "solid state graphics"-a new kind of graphics card that's meant to keep large amounts of data close to the GPU. This card has what AMD calls a "one-terabyte extended frame buffer" that relies on non-volatile memory to store all those bits-presumably NAND. In turn, the GPU is connected to that memory using a dedicated PCIe bus. For perspective, consider that AMD's previous capacity champ, the FirePro W9100, only has 32GB of GDDR5 RAM on board.
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