Asus's new Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD mostly looks and behaves like a typical mid-range Ada Lovelace graphics card. However, its embedded M.2. port leverages the...
i thought it would work liek this
without ssd on gpu
slot 1: gpu (uses 8x lanes)
slot 2: dual ssd bifurcation card (4x lanes per ssd)
total 2 nvme ssd in 2 slots
with ssd on gpu
slot 1: gpu + ssd (4x lanes each)
slot 2: dual ssd bifurcation card (4x lanes per ssd)
total 3 nvme in 2 slots
assuming that the gpu only needs 4x lanes of pcie 5.0
you get an extra ssd in this scenario which would not be possible without a GPU that natively does PCIE 5.0 at 4x.
Nope, if you use the second 16x slot the first only gets 8 lanes due to bifurcation, so no GPU SSD. If on the other hand we got 4x pcie5 GPUs this would make sense. Sadly there are no PCIe gen 5 GPUs yet, so they all use more gen 4 lanes.
If you buy the mobo with the most nvme slots. This still gives you one more.
If you are already buying a motherboard with many NVMe slots, populating all of them and still need more space… and your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation… I highly doubt you’re buying a 4060ti, just so you can get one more. It would be a lot easier to just one of the many available PCIe NVMe adaptors available and use that in one of your other PCIe slots.
Otherwise you’re wasting pcie 5.0 slots. Current glue don’t need 16x pcie 4.0. Using 16x pcie 5.0 for a gpu is a waste on any motherboard
While that may be true, GPU manufacturers aren’t going to make an 8x version of a high end GPU just so you can fit on an additional NVMe SSD. The only reason Asus did it with the 4060ti is because it’s already an 8x GPU.
This is a weird niche we’re unlikely to see more of.
If you buy the mobo with the most nvme slots. This still gives you one more.
Otherwise you’re wasting pcie 5.0 slots. Current glue don’t need 16x pcie 4.0. Using 16x pcie 5.0 for a gpu is a waste on any motherboard
It doesn’t give you an extra, unless you have an itx board as it just takes the 8 lanes from the second 16x slot and feeds 4x of them to the SSD.
i thought it would work liek this
without ssd on gpu
slot 1: gpu (uses 8x lanes)
slot 2: dual ssd bifurcation card (4x lanes per ssd)
total 2 nvme ssd in 2 slots
with ssd on gpu
slot 1: gpu + ssd (4x lanes each)
slot 2: dual ssd bifurcation card (4x lanes per ssd)
total 3 nvme in 2 slots
assuming that the gpu only needs 4x lanes of pcie 5.0
you get an extra ssd in this scenario which would not be possible without a GPU that natively does PCIE 5.0 at 4x.
Nope, if you use the second 16x slot the first only gets 8 lanes due to bifurcation, so no GPU SSD. If on the other hand we got 4x pcie5 GPUs this would make sense. Sadly there are no PCIe gen 5 GPUs yet, so they all use more gen 4 lanes.
If you are already buying a motherboard with many NVMe slots, populating all of them and still need more space… and your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation… I highly doubt you’re buying a 4060ti, just so you can get one more. It would be a lot easier to just one of the many available PCIe NVMe adaptors available and use that in one of your other PCIe slots.
While that may be true, GPU manufacturers aren’t going to make an 8x version of a high end GPU just so you can fit on an additional NVMe SSD. The only reason Asus did it with the 4060ti is because it’s already an 8x GPU.
This is a weird niche we’re unlikely to see more of.