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Source In a move that was perhaps the most important announcement of Siggraph, Radeon Technologies Group presented the Radeon Pro SSG card, perhaps the most innovative concept to have come out of the GPU world of in quite some time. SSG stands for “Solid State Graphics”, and in its prototype version consists out of a Polaris 10 graphics processor, commonly known as Radeon RX 480 with 8GB of memory, a PLX PCIe bridge and two M.2 NVMe slots with two 512GB SSD drives, which might come to market on their own, probably branded as Radeon R9 memory. The way how Radeon Pro SSG works is quite ingenious. When AMD decided to reshape its mainstream GPU codenamed as “Ellesmere” into a “Polaris 10”, part of that effort was to bring more than 16 PCIe lanes inside the GPU. Polaris 10 has as much PCIe lanes as Intel mainstream processors – from Haswell, Broadwell of yesterday to today’s Skylake and tomorrow’s Kabylake. In our conversation with John Swinimer and his colleague, we learned that the initial prototype card is just the beginning. The GPU attaches to the on-board PCIe bridge just like Radeon Pro Duo does. However, the data does not go down to the motherboard but rather stays on the discrete board, ‘talking’ to the NVMe controller which features two M.2 slots.
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AMD's Polaris-based Radeon Pro WX GPUs can create VR content for under $1,000 AMD has scrapped the FirePro brand for its workstation GPUs as it tries to catch up with Nvidia in the professional graphics market AMD's Radeon Pro WX 7100 is a VR content creating GPU for under $1,000. AMD is set to release three new professional GPUs as it looks to begin sunsetting its FirePro lineup. The company said Monday night at graphics trade show SIGGRAPH that its new Radeon Pro WX 4100, Radeon Pro WX 5100, and Radeon Pro WX 7100 will be based on its latest Polaris architecture and are aimed at professional users. Specs and pricing of the new cards weren’t immediately available, but the images don't indicate that AMD is going for the jugular in terms of performance, unlike arch-rival Nvidia. AMD officials didn’t talk performance, but they did say the Radeon Pro WX 7100 will hit Steam’s VR performance requirements. Perhaps more importantly, said AMD's head of Industry Alliances David Watters, is the way AMD has organized its graphics unit going forward. Watters said competitor Nvidia must contend with its consumer GeForce products competing with its professional Quadro and Tesla lines.
