ASUS has shown a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Graphics Card with an M.2 SSD Slot. ASUS made use of the unused PCIe lanes as the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti only uses 8 PCIe lanes. The card is only a concept so whether they’ll decide to officially release the card remains to be seen.
Taken from VideoCardz… “A video from Tony Yu (GM at ASUS) shows a concept RTX 4060 Ti Dual graphics card that could solve the problem of unused PCIe lanes. The company has figured out that instead of making fake lanes, those could still be used for other devices, such as high-speed SSD storage. They presented a concept RTX 4060 Ti GPU with Samsung 980 PRO 2TB SSD attached to the backside.
Most SSDs these days are installed in inconvenient and tight spaces on motherboards, often requiring a removal of graphics cards or even large CPU coolers to gain access. That said, users would have much easier access with M.2 SSDs installed on a graphics card.
Likewise, it is important to take into consideration that the graphics card will require greater power, but this should not exceed 10W at maximum, which is nothing an RTX 4060 Ti couldn’t handle with just one 8-pin power connector.
Tony outlines all the aspects of such an installation, including the potential heat issues that may arise due to its connection to a graphics card. It’s interesting to note that the temperature has actually dropped by around 10 C and the performance loss is minimal (6.8 GB/s instead of 6.9 GB/s for the peak sustained read speed).
This is because the PCB has been cut to allow airflow from the GPU cooler to reach SSDs, in fact, the cooler is directly attached to the SSD with thermal pads. The GPU and SSD simply share a large cooler, and one can imagine that triple-fan installations would only make this even more efficient.”
Source: VideoCardz via Bilibili
