AMD has announced a new graphics card that incorporates an SSD for the first time. The Radeon Pro SSG features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots allowing you to add up to 1TB of NAND flash memory directly to the graphics card. This will allow large datasets to be worked on locally without having to use system memory, which should provide a much faster experience during heavy rendering work.
The Radeon Pro SSG was demoed at the Siggraph computer graphics conference rendering raw 8K video smoothly at 30 frames per second, and AMD claims it can even run at 90 frames per second. VR content creators and the medical and scientific communities who need high-end renders would benefit the most from the large frame buffer the Radeon Pro SSG provides, and that’s exactly who AMD is targeting.
The kicker; it’s US$10k.
OK, so it’s not really aimed at the average consumer but it’s an interesting indication of where the tech is headed.
Source: AMD just announced a graphics card with an SSD | The Verge