Beholder88 :
I'm curious to see how this thing is configured on the board level. Will there be any VRAM at all, or is the SSD acting AS the VRAM?
Even most SSDs have DRAM buffers. Cheap SSDs are starting to use system memory as a buffer, but 'till now it's been embedded in the drives.
Beholder88 :
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but HBM memory has a bandwidth of 256Mbps and SSDs can see more than twice that.
Okay, you're wrong. AMD's Fury is spec'd at about 512 GB/sec. SATA 3 tops out at about 500 MB/sec. You're only off by about 1000x. Okay, so M.2 SSDs can do over 2 GB/sec. Still, not even close.
Only 3D XPoint gets close to the speed of DRAM, but DDR4 is still several times faster. I don't know about Memristor-based memory, but I think it might be in the ballpark.
So, I think we can safely say this thing has HBM, GDDR5, or GDDR5X. I wish they posted some other specs on it, but you can't really blame them. It's not actually a product launch.
And I'm not too impressed with 8k video "rendering". I mean it's good, but I'm sure some people read that as 3D rendering at 8k, which it's not.