Tuesday, August 19th 2014
AMD Announces the Radeon R7 Line of Solid State Drives
AMD today announced its Radeon R7 line of mainstream solid-state drives. Built by OCZ, the drives feature Toshiba-made MLC NAND flash, and OCZ's Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00 processors. Built in the 7 mm-thick 2.5-inch form-factor, the drives feature SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and are available in three capacities, 120 GB, 240 GB, and 480 GB.
All three offer sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s; while the 120 GB variant offers up to 470 MB/s of sequential writes; the 240 GB and 480 GB ones offer up to 530 MB/s. Their 4K random read performance numbers are up to 85,000 IOPS, up to 95,000 IOPS, and up to 100,000 IOPS, respectively; while the 4K sequential write performance for all three are rated at up to 90,000 IOPS. The Radeon R7 is essentially an OCZ Vector 150 with lighter processor clocks, and could be priced accordingly.
All three offer sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s; while the 120 GB variant offers up to 470 MB/s of sequential writes; the 240 GB and 480 GB ones offer up to 530 MB/s. Their 4K random read performance numbers are up to 85,000 IOPS, up to 95,000 IOPS, and up to 100,000 IOPS, respectively; while the 4K sequential write performance for all three are rated at up to 90,000 IOPS. The Radeon R7 is essentially an OCZ Vector 150 with lighter processor clocks, and could be priced accordingly.
24 Comments on AMD Announces the Radeon R7 Line of Solid State Drives
AMD Graphics Card
AMD Memory
AMD SSD
AMD Case
All we need is an AMD Motherboard and AMD PSU for a whole rig.
Soon, soon i guess.
btw if they realease full steel case, i will consider that since today cases has too much plastic :D:lovetpu::roll:
Reference:AMD have rebranded their SSD's and DDR3 directly, as in it shows little-to-no trace of the OEM. Coolermaster, on the other hand, have produced AMD themed chassis under license so it still looks very similar to the original HAF... much the same as Lian Li did a while back.
Mediocrity seems to be a repetative theme when it comes to these type of products, AMD.
$145 for a 240GB Kingston HyperX with free copy of Watch Dogs..... certainly a much better deal than the AMD rebrand... even without the free game. :shadedshu:
PS And someone to mod the Nvidia panel to look like Catalyst control center.
Fanboy trolls are so 2004 :shadedshu:
Guess we will have to see where these go before we write them off.
120GB: $99.99
240GB: $159.99
480GB: $289.99
Same price as the Vector 150. IMO prices are a tad high on these.
As for the AMD DDR3 RAM: I have a 2x4 GB DDR3-1333 set that clearly says on the label they are made by Patriot. No covering up who made them at all, if anyone thought they were trying to.
And of course NO Intel mobos. You can't use an AMD APU with Intel sockets.AMD is making it easy for the OEMs and also is leveling the field with Intel.
An OEM goes at Intel. With only one meeting he gets
CPU + graphics
Motherboard
SSD
a huge discount
In the past having to make an AMD based system had to negotiate every part with a different company.
Now an OEM goes at AMD. With only one meeting he gets
APU or CPU+GPU combination
SSD
RAM
a few stickers from @erixx's collection "We love AMD", because AMD doesn't have the money for huge discounts.