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If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.
This will change deeply how we make desktop applications, as well as database management systems.
1,000x performance, but they are introducing it with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface? That is suspicious. And then they are going to follow with a lower cost PCIe 3.0 x2 version? (That they still label as an Enthusiast / Workstation product?) I wonder if they are aggressively segmenting the market so that you have to pay a lot for the "enterprise" product to get the full performance. Or, alternatively, if the real world perf…
Intel always does this and Optane won't be any exception.
The "1,000x" claims are either at the chip level (e.g. NAND block erase vs. XPoint word write) or maybe some access pattern that is worst-case for flash. It's physically impossible to get 1,000x improvement on common access patterns.
If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.
1,000x performance, but they are introducing it with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface? That is suspicious. And then they are going to follow with a lower cost PCIe 3.0 x2 version? (That they still label as an Enthusiast / Workstation product?) I wonder if they are aggressively segmenting the market so that you have to pay a lot for the "enterprise" product to get the full performance. Or, alternatively, if the real world perf…
Good read about consumer SSD performance: http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2014/10/10/ceph-how-to-test...
500MB 1000x faster would be 500GB/sec or about 20x faster than standard RAM.
That puts the claim in perspective :)
If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.
If 3d Xpoint is cheaper, lower latency, and higher throughput than DRAM, yes, it will obsolete DRAM. Currently it is higher latency, and lower throughput. And it is cheaper on a per-GB basis, but with a much higher minimum GB (like, 128GB).
So your run of the mill SSD these days is like 500MB/s. Dual channel RAM @ 1600Mhz with 64bit bus is: 2 * 8bytes * 1 600 000 000 = 25.6GB/sec 500MB 1000x faster would be 500GB/sec or about 20x faster than standard RAM. That puts the claim in perspective :)
If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.