Tuesday, August 5th 2014
AMD Readies Radeon R7 Branded Client SSDs
AMD's Radeon brand is turning out to be its only hope in capturing high-end gaming PC sales. The brand now covers AMD's high-performance GPUs, system memory modules, and now, client SSDs. The company is giving final touches to three client SSD models in the 2.5-inch SATA form-factor, bearing the Radeon R7 brand, featuring capacities of 120 GB, 240 GB, and 480 GB.
All three feature SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and offer sequential read speeds as high as 550 MB/s, sequential writes of up to 470 MB/s on the 120 GB variant; and up to 530 MB/s on both the 240 GB and 480 GB ones. The three offer 4K random access throughput of up to 85,000 IOPS, 95,000 IOPS, and 100,000 IOPS, respectively; with 4K QD32 steady-state throughput of 12,000 IOPS, 20,000 IOPS, and 23,000 IOPS, respectively. The three are based on OCZ's Indilinx Barefoot 3 processor, driving Toshiba-made 19 nm MLC NAND flash chips. The three will be formally launched on the 13th of August, 2014.
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WCCFTech
All three feature SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and offer sequential read speeds as high as 550 MB/s, sequential writes of up to 470 MB/s on the 120 GB variant; and up to 530 MB/s on both the 240 GB and 480 GB ones. The three offer 4K random access throughput of up to 85,000 IOPS, 95,000 IOPS, and 100,000 IOPS, respectively; with 4K QD32 steady-state throughput of 12,000 IOPS, 20,000 IOPS, and 23,000 IOPS, respectively. The three are based on OCZ's Indilinx Barefoot 3 processor, driving Toshiba-made 19 nm MLC NAND flash chips. The three will be formally launched on the 13th of August, 2014.
46 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon R7 Branded Client SSDs
The reality is it's all shades in between, but if people admit that then they have no rooting interest, and more importantly have less personal justification for their own purchasing bias.
I mean, if you wanted to get down to brass tacks, AMD wouldn't actually exist without Intel. I don't mean the x86 licence that IBM strong armed Intel into, but the fact that it took Robert Noyce's investment in AMD to legitimize them in eyes of investors after Arthur Rock turned down the opportunity. The other side of the coin is Intel as a company used just about every means at its disposal- fair means and foul- to rid itself of AMD when IBM ceased to be a player in the PC market after MS, Compaq and the rest of the Gang of Nine became the dominant force. Add in Jerry Sanders coup d' état in forcing his original partners out of AMD and granting himself virtually unlimited power once they were gone....and of course Intel's various underhanded acts of litigation warfare and the picture becomes so muddied that its little wonder that people like to keep it simple.
The 'wrong' or 'right' will come from the pricing, i.e. are you stupid enough to buy a higher priced Radeon branded product? Or can you swallow your pride enough to buy a cheaper Radeon branded product to work in your neon green Tower case powered by sli 780ti's?
Would sit nice knowing everything should play well together with a fair price tag and competitive pricing.
Very few company's make some thing these days.
The R7 series SSD's...Quite interesting especially looking at the base specs in general (Though as already pointed out seems to be OEM Toshiba). It may come down to price because with that choice in controller and the specifications we could see a really competitive set of SSD's (Though my loyalty is still stuck on Samsung). As others have stated, AMD is creating a wide variety of products and quite possibly preparing for some Radeon branded machines...Could be cool I suppose.
Toshiba bought OCZ SSD division short time ago btw.
All in all, flash has its purposes and HDDs have their own. It's really as simple as that unless SSD capacities continue to grow faster than HDDs and continue to drop in price. I could see there eventually coming a point (far down the road,) where SSDs will make HDDs obsolete but we're no where near there yet.
why do emotions always run so high when it concerns Intel/AMD/Nvidia, I mean
were all just sports fans cheering on our favorite team....just so happens our teams are made of silicon and transistors :laugh:
I'm thinking the 120gb one will be around $100 The 240 $149 and the 480 $229
Hurry and bring these sweet looking amd wrapped ocz's out already :)