During last month, AMD has rather quietly introduced its new R3 SSD lineup which should replace earlier available R7 performance SSDs but now it appears that new high-end R7 and R9 SSDs are also incoming.

[enThe new AMD Radeon R3 SSD series is both manufactured and distributed by Galt, the company that also makes AMD Radeon-branded memory modules, and these drives will be available only in 2.5-inch 7mm form-factor. In case you missed it earlier, the R3 SSD series is based on Silicon Motion SM2256KX controller and TLC NAND from SK Hynix.

The R3 SSD series will be available in 120, 240, 480 and 960GB capacities and offer sequential performance of up to 520MB/s for read and up to 470MB/s for write.

While these Radeon R3 series SSDs will cover mainstream market, newest information suggest that AMD also plans to introduce R7 and R9 series high-end SSDs that will both come in standard 2.5-inch but also M.2 form-factors, with SATA and PCI-Express interface.

AMD appears to be quite serious when it comes to Radeon-branded SSDs and pushing into a high-end market might be a good thing, for those that want a completely AMD-branded system at least.[/en]



Source: Anandtech.com.