ASUS Introduces Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with Integrated M.2 Slot for NVMe SSDs
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Venix
Now that's a good idea , the only hurdle I can see is if you end up relaying on this extra storage , you would have to find some other solution to keep the drive on your system .
rl66
At least it is a good idea.
pegasus1
Great idea
Undying
Did you guys even touched the backplate of the gpu when gaming extendedly?
TLD LARS
Look at the PCB of the card, there is nothing hot close to the SSD.
The backplate is cut out so it is not touching the SSD.
The PCB is cut out so it is not touching the SSD.
The VRM is on the opposite side of the board.
The only thing hot is a heatpipe close by, but the card is still only a 160W card with a massive cooler (for the TDP at least), so the fan air hitting the GPU cooler and then the SSD afterwards could cool the SSD more then if it was on the mainboard in dead air.
Undying
I guess its by design so m.2 does not overheat. Its questionable if this could be an issue on much higher power card.
GlassGR
the way the Bus Interface is used by GPU designers i wont be surprised if the next gen 5060ti has a dual nvme slot with raid support or a 5gbit LAN port next to the HDMI port 🙂
pegasus1
Would the slot have exactly the same transfer rates as a slot on the MOBO, could the slot on the card be used in anyway to enhance card performance?
van_dammesque
If this was a extra layer of cache it would be useful, but can't help feeling slapping storage on one of the hottest parts of the PC is not ideal.
TheDeeGee
TPU will have a review soon.
TLD LARS
As far as I know, this card works by splitting up a 16X port into 8 lanes for the graphic card itself and then 4 lanes to the M.2, so it uses 12 lanes in total.
There could have been 2 SSDs on the board to use all the lanes available.
There is no direct data connection between the M.2 and GPU, all SSD data would need to go down on the mainboard to the CPU and then back to mainboard and to the GPU.
TheDeeGee
The only downside is that you need a motherboard which supports Bifurcation to split PCI-E lanes.
So this won't work on anything below Z790 for Intel.
Ghosty
There used to be side fan slots on PC cases but that doesn't seem to an option anymore.
rl66
It's not from chipset, but more from bios and how the lane are connected, as an exemple nearly all pro motherboard i had since the X79 could do it (and boot from M2 too) (x16 splited in X8 X8 or X8 X4 X4 or X4 X4 X4 X4) when the mainstream motherboard do it since relatively few year, it's a bit like BAR that where missing on mainstream bios for years despite aviable on pro side.
Airbud
Higher power card is usually X16
DLD
I'm not contended - I demand RGB lightning with the full disco light show capability, and a coca cola holder included...
