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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.
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In regard to gaming, aren't SSDs only useful for MMORPGs?
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.
In regard to gaming, aren't SSDs only useful for MMORPGs?
Just load times, that's it.
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.
Just? JUST?! You make this sound like it's nothing I love me some 5 second start times in Battlefield.
Just? JUST?! You make this sound like it's nothing I love me some 5 second start times in Battlefield.
Pretty muchSo you can load a game .003 seconds faster than a SATA SSD?
So you can load a game .003 seconds faster than a SATA SSD?
You must have a lot of fun waiting on the round to start cause not enough people have loaded up the map yet.
OCZ?
Why can't these jokers make a couple SOUND engineering choices?
So you can load a game .003 seconds faster than a SATA SSD?
In regard to gaming, aren't SSDs only useful for MMORPGs?
It's useful for any game with a load time. Crysis 1 would load up in seconds on my Samsung SSD where as it'd take about a minute on my WD Black HHD.
OCZ????
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?
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.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.
... drives made by OCZ.
Yes. Until SSDs can load programs as fast as my 20GB RAM DRIVE then its still too slow.