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at SIGGRAPH tonight just hours ago Andy announced its new Radeon Pro SSG solution which is a solid-state graphics solution they're calling it and this host memory starting at one terabyte in capacity it's not the typical on card vram though it's a little bit different SSG as we understand it right now is effectively an extra pool it's an extended frame buffer where the card when it taps out of its onboard memory it can tap into via PCIe bus this SSG memory which basically allows AMD to bypass the process of talking to the cpu to request information from system ram and if it's not there you go to the storage device hard drive solid-state drive or other so instead of going through that path and these able to take all this extra data in data storage data sets that might need for production applications put it onto an SSG they're calling it and a pull from the PCIe bus which is much faster and physically closer than system RAM that matters to so this is not a gaming device this is the production devices for workstations and as such the price starts at a ten thousand dollar fee for the development kit and that kit will begin availability in 2017 you can buy it now I don't know that anyone in our audience does that sort of thing but it's certainly worth talking about because interesting technology other than sort of the basic specs that we have right now we do know from a presentation that Andy held tonight at SIGGRAPH that the live scrubbing time of a video improved from 17 fps to about 90 plus fps so that's somewhere around a 5x increase in performance just under 5 X and that for anyone who does video production or other workload tasks is pretty significant because you're moving from 17 frames per second which is below what the user will see even if you're outputting a 24 FPS movie which isn't that common anymore you're moving from 17 fps to something that's pretty similar or exceeds what the user will be seen so that's certainly useful for quickly editing applying effects manipulating the models things like that Radeon SSG is also being targeted for VR content creation and they said oil and gas exploration that's certainly not an industry we pay attention to CFD or computational fluid dynamics and other computer and or computational engineering applications and then there's some scientific applications in the world of medicine and medical research which we also don't follow so that's how it basically works from what we know right now I don't have a lot of other hard specs we have the price again 10 grand available 2017 in the mean time and that's for the dev kit by the way in the mean time and the also announced its new Radeon Pro WX series so these would be the effective competitors to Quadro if you're not familiar with the WX line but you know the Quadra line they compete in the same market space the three new cards announced today include the WX 7100 the WX with u-100 the WX 4100 GPUs all three are on Polaris architecture I'm not sure right now if that's Polaris 10 or if there's a new version of the GPU but they are on Polaris we know that much so it is the 14 nanometer FinFET process node that we saw with the RX 480 and these cards are built to drive the new GPU open standard or the expanding GPU open standard I should say which includes some of and these new ish technologies like fire rays and things like that for real-time ray tracing and getting more out of the light tracing and renders the WX 7100 the high-end card is targeted at media production and VR content creation the WX 5100 is sort of mid-range as the name might suggest and that goes for product development and in this world product development means things like designing your car a BMW I believe uses game engines or at least some of the companies use game engines now I think BMW is one of them to do their automotive rendering and you would use a card like a WX or a Quadro card to do that with some level of of speed and then the WX 4100 is an HHH L format or have height half length so that's built for small form-factor pcs so you can put your HHH L video card in your SFF box if you like acronyms that's the way to do it and that card is targeted at supporting pro CAD applications or computer aided design or drafting and is targeted again at small workstations so that's those three W X cards I don't have phone numbers respects on any of these I don't know the architecture beyond it's Polaris and that's all we have for today for those who are out of loop on the workstation world I would the once I do know that covers it with a more consumer slant which certainly our site is would be Rob Williams site tech gage he has some decent reviews of Quadra cards and fire pro and things like that you can go check his reviews out we don't look into that stuff but that is the technology that's the interesting stuff the SSS the SSG rather solution the Radeon Pro one terabyte memory array or whatever you want to call it is pretty interesting I'll be looking into that more I've asked AMD a few questions about it hopefully we can learn at it about it just from a technology standpoint and see how it works if we can ever expect something maybe lower end to come to consumer but for now it's all workstation so as always patrons emotional video gonna help us out directly thank you for watching subscribe for more content I'll see you all next time