ASUS RTX 4060 Ti with SSD slot now official A few weeks ago, ASUS revealed their concept graphics card based on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 series. This card features a customized DUAL design with a unique addition not typically found on gaming GPUs – an M.2 SSD slot. It’s worth mentioning that the inclusion of […]
This feels cool I guess but it solves a total of one (1) minor issue (in case your motherboard lacks a PCI M.2 slot and you need one) and straight up creates a big issue (PCIe bifurcation) plus a potential whole host of compatibility issues. Still fun to see experimentation happen though. Also don’t really see a future where we move M.2 drives to the GPU fully because most consumer computers don’t have a dedicated GPU.
I actually thought the SSD was FOR the GPU and it would take advantage of the fast NVMe speeds to use it as a slower secondary graphics memory. That’d be a good use of old high-end PCI-4 drives when people start upgrading to PCI-5 ones.
Going from main system memory when the VRAM is full would probably still be orders of magnitude faster than going from any storage device. But maybe it will work out somehow with directstorage.
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When you don’t have any m.2 slot to spare you can just use any pcie to m.2 adapter instead of this tho