A graphics card and a NVMe SSD within a single product? It’s a good idea from ASUS and it could come to us soon.
Last July, we talked about a somewhat special kind of graphics card. ASUS then presented a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti equipped with an M.2 port in order to be able to connect an NVMe SSD.
The thing seemed more like a technical demonstration than a real product developed for commercial purposes. However, everything today suggests that ASUS has the idea of distributing its RTX.
Well available in Russia?
It is not ASUS itself which confirms its desire to market this card, but the publication of a document from the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC).
Not necessarily very well known in France, the organization is responsible for validating numerous products for markets such as those of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The EEC therefore let slip a list mentioning very clearly the very special card from ASUS under the name DUAL RTX 4060 Ti 8G SSD.
Two variants are already mentioned – with or without overclocking – but we will not know more for the moment knowing that the EEC documents are never very verbose.
A perfectly integrated SSD
The idea behind this DUAL RTX 4060 Ti 8G SSD is to take advantage of the fact that a GeForce of this caliber only uses eight PCI Express lines while the connection is made on an x16 port.
ASUS therefore decided to use the “additional” lines to wire them to an M.2 port located on the PCB of the card and accessible on the back of it so that it can be manipulated without the need to disassemble the GeForce. The fact remains that if the theory is well understood, ASUS has still not gone into the details of its product.
Last July, ASUS’s first demonstrations noted that the SSD benefited from the card’s cooling system that was 10°C cooler than if it were inserted on the motherboard. Additionally, its performance seemed completely normal, at 6.8 GB/s sequential read.
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Source : VideoCardz
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