AMD Unveils Radeon R7 Series Gaming SSDs

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According to this post at WCCF Tech, AMD is set to announce new Radeon R7 Series SSDs later this month. The blurry screenshots shows 120GB, 240GB and 480GB drives made by OCZ.
 
If only AMD had a killer CPU I would be all over this. I would rock the AMD memory, the GPU's, the CPU and this AMD branded memory.

Rocking all this gear on Intel seems ...... wrong
 
In regard to gaming, aren't SSDs only useful for MMORPGs?
 
even there, its usefulness is limited... not like you're covering massive regions fast enough that load times matter

source: MMO player
 
Wake me up when they release a M.2 NVMe drive. SATA 3.0 6Gbps is just too much a bottleneck. Sure you can use RAID 0 but you start to bottleneck the DMI/UMI bus at about 3 good SSDs, which you can get the same performance from 1 M.2 NVMe SSD without the bottleneck and lower latency.
 
OCZ is now Toshiba storage.

maybe they'll release an R8 SSD by Crucial, R9 SSD by Samsung. :D
 
DizConnected said:
Wake me up when they release a M.2 NVMe drive. SATA 3.0 6Gbps is just too much a bottleneck. Sure you can use RAID 0 but you start to bottleneck the DMI/UMI bus at about 3 good SSDs, which you can get the same performance from 1 M.2 NVMe SSD without the bottleneck and lower latency.
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So you can load a game .003 seconds faster than a SATA SSD?
 
OCZ, huh? Well, they could have done worse. They could have gone with a JMicron controller. These might be semi-reliable, depending on who does the actual manufacturing, and should be decently fast. As long as the parent company, Toshiba, doesn't do the manufacturing, they should hold up fairly reliably. If Toshiba is doing the manufacturing, stay away!
 
Megalith said:
In regard to gaming, aren't SSDs only useful for MMORPGs?
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There can be effective performance gains in titles where data has to be streamed in from disk (outside of system memory). Actually years ago Ubisoft put up a demonstration video of the advantage of SSD asset streaming for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
 
Kor said:
There can be effective performance gains in titles where data has to be streamed in from disk (outside of system memory). Actually years ago Ubisoft put up a demonstration video of the advantage of SSD asset streaming for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
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Arma 2/3, DCS, FSX for sure, and since it uses Arma's engine I guess DayZ too. Although, these games are better served by a ramdrive.
 
AMD in partnership with Toshiba is interesting! Could open other doors for AMD. I'd say this is a very good move.
 
Too late. Bought me a Samsung 840EVO SSD several months ago. I don't game anymore, but shit, it still loads everything insanely faster than my old 7200rpm drive. Windows 8 in 4-6 seconds, iTunes, Photoshop, Office Word, Excel, all loads in a split second. Handbrake encodes Blu-ray into MKV in minutes instead of a couple hours. I should have jumped on the SSD bandwagon years ago.
 
Ughhh.......

They had to pick OCZ out of all the manufacturers out there? Not exactly a stellar reputation for a brand that is being seen as cheap these days.

Now that I exclusively game on consoles these days, I have found that AMD processors are more than adequate for what I do on PC. I just hope that they release something competitive on the CPU side of things.
 
OCZ?

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Why can't these jokers make a couple SOUND engineering choices?
 
Better thank your lucky stars Toshiba bought OCZ or these drives would be going bad at a horribly fast rate
 
McFry said:
Just? JUST?! You make this sound like it's nothing :p I love me some 5 second start times in Battlefield.
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Haha, sorry yea, that is a pretty good thing. Didn't mean to sound like I was downplaying it :p

I just grabbed an 850, I'm looking forward to this thing lasting longer than the socket it comes with!
 
McFry said:
Just? JUST?! You make this sound like it's nothing :p I love me some 5 second start times in Battlefield.
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You must have a lot of fun waiting on the round to start cause not enough people have loaded up the map yet.
 
SRTie4k said:
So you can load a game .003 seconds faster than a SATA SSD?
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Yes. Until SSDs can load programs as fast as my 20GB RAM DRIVE then its still too slow.

Plus gaming is one of the least things I do on my computer, video editing, video encoding, Visualization. But when I do game I love to not to having to wait even .003 seconds longer than I have to.
 
What first drove me to SSDs was flying around WoW collecting herbs back in the ollld days. Every time I'd enter a sub-zone there'd be a 100ms freeze as the game loaded zone data from the HDD. Switch to SSD and smooth flying, literally.
 
Koizumi said:
You must have a lot of fun waiting on the round to start cause not enough people have loaded up the map yet.
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So you don't play the game... Cause you obliviously have no clue what you are talking about.:rolleyes:
 
Yeah, OCZ... Not the best reputation for reliability... They would have been better with saying 'Samsung' or something...
 
SRTie4k said:
So you can load a game .003 seconds faster than a SATA SSD?
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The load times are significantly faster on SSD versus Hard Disk. Especially if it involves transferring large amounts of data to video memory. Loading TF2 from SSD was easily three times quicker (if not more, no exaggeration) than loading it from hard disk. ESPECIALLY if the game install files were on the same drive as the OS.
 
OCZ????

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Of all the OEM's out there they couldnt find any better than OCZ? So what is a line of mediocre SSD's going to do for AMD stock prices?
 
MacLeod said:
OCZ????

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Of all the OEM's out there they couldnt find any better than OCZ? So what is a line of mediocre SSD's going to do for AMD stock prices?
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One thing i've learned is most corporate leadership is glorified accountants who have no fucking clue what their company actually does or how or why. OCZ was probably the cheapest and like many companies amd is going a supplier is a supplier when thats simply not true. Dupont learned that the hard way.
 
techrat said:
The load times are significantly faster on SSD versus Hard Disk. Especially if it involves transferring large amounts of data to video memory. Loading TF2 from SSD was easily three times quicker (if not more, no exaggeration) than loading it from hard disk. ESPECIALLY if the game install files were on the same drive as the OS.
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You're misunderstanding. He wasn't talking about hard drives v. SSDs. He was talking about SATA 3 SSDs v. using PCI express or something similar. In other words, every SATA SSD is "too slow" for him.
 
Yes. Until SSDs can load programs as fast as my 20GB RAM DRIVE then its still too slow.
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But how do you load your ram drive? With a spinner 20G would take 4 times as along as an SSD.
 
Calm down kids, its real easy to jump on OCZ for their royal firmware fuckup when they were first to market with the Sandforce Controller. I think they learned that lesson of crucial platform validation. They fixed the firmware months later. I bought a Vertex3 MaxIOPS (Toshiba Toggle NAND) and never once had an issue with it. They ultimately paid the price and went under but some lessons were definitely learned about validation prior to release. Now running a Vertex 460, awesome drive and very consistent speeds.
 
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