According to a fresh report and leaked slides, AMD will soon launch its newest Radeon R7 branded solid state drives which will be based on OCZ's controller and Toshiba NAND. Earlier, AMD has released memory modules under the Radeon brand and these new SSDs will allow AMD to have a complete Radeon based system.


To be available in 128, 240 and 480GB capacities, AMD's upcoming Radeon R7 branded SSDs, leaked by Wccftech.com, will be based on a standard 2.5-inch form factor and SATA 6Gbps interface. The entire lineup will be based on OCZ's Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00 controller paired up with Toshiba 19nm MLC NAND flash.

According to the leaked slides, the performance is not half bad either as the 120GB version will offer sequential transfer speeds of up to 550MB/s for read and up to 470MB/s for write while 4K random performance is set at 85k IOPS. The 240 and 480GB versions will offer sequential read and write performance of up to 550MB/s and 530MB/s while 4K random performance is at 95k and 100k IOPS, respectively. The sustained random write IOPS (4K QD32) performance is set at 12k, 20k and 23k, respectively.




The Radeon R7 SSD lineup is in line with almost entire competition including OCZ's Vertex 460, Samsung's 840 EVO, Crucial's M500, SanDisk's Extreme Pro or Kingston's HyperX 3K SSDs and all we need now are the precise prices and some reviews of these Radeon R7 branded SSDs in order to give our final judgment.



Source: Wccftech.com.