Pemalite said:
setsunatenshi said:
There are rumors going around that new RDNA architecture could make use of some of the new gen console features and incorporate some type of ssd for quick loading, like the PS5 is supposed to do. Yeah, an ssd on the gpu o.0... I'd definitely wait it out till the end of the year and see what comes to fruition because that could be a game changer.
I was super curious to actually see the gameplay on the XSX, to see if there was any indication of the fast streaming of assets. A big part of my disappointment came from the disclaimer of the games running on hardware that was "representing target xsx performance". I'm really eager to see anything run on the actual machines.
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NAND on the GPU is not new, it's actually been done before, it will not speed up load times, the PCI-E bus isn't the bottleneck, nor are SSD's a replacement for RAM anyway, they are far to slow and high latency for that.
https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/radeon-pro-ssg
It doesn't provide optimal gaming experiences, it's fantastic for datasets that extend towards multiple terabytes though, so it's usefulness was only limited to professionals.
The consoles are using RDNA 2. The PC's RDNA 2 will architecturally be a match.
There was a rumor awhile ago that the next-gen consoles were using RDNA 1 chips with features like Ray Tracing taken from RDNA 2 chips, whether that holds any accuracy remains to be seen, but I doubt it.
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The rumor I'm talking about refers to incorporating the same sort of ssd solution found in the PS5, with, say a 250GB ssd that would hold the game you're about to play straight in the gpu's nand. So in this case, yes, it would surely improve load times on traditional games, but better yet, would assure the sort of games that are designted to take advantage of ultra fast ssds would be able to run on a PC with a compatible gpu. Basically, would assure anyone playing the game has the fast access to game's assets you would see in the next gen consoles.
Heard that speculation from Moore's Law Is Dead not long ago and he made a really good case for it.
I'll link you below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJ9amSDIE0
