They demo'd a traditional high-end video editing rig that was previewing and scrubbing through 8K raw footage at 19 fps. The SSG card could accomplish the same task at 90 fps. Applications must be coded for this capability but it appears they have many professional software companies lining up to buy their dev kits and integrate the tech. Retail products will be launched in 2017.

As part of this evening’s AMD Capsaicin event (more on that later), AMD’s Chief Architect and SVP of the Radeon Technologies Group has announced a new Radeon Pro card unlike anything else. Dubbed the Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics (SSG), this card includes M.2 slots for adding NAND SSDs, with the goal of vastly increasing the amount of local storage available to the video card.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10518/amd-announces-radeon-pro-ssg-polaris-with-m2-ssds-onboard

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