Wednesday, November 22nd 2023
ASUS Announces Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD Graphics Card
ASUS today announced the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD, the world's first graphics card equipped with an M.2 slot, allowing for a seamless cooling upgrade for high-performance NVMe drives.
Reimagined M.2 storage
At its core, this card has all of the same amazing features as the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB. Third-generation RT Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, now featuring DLSS 3.5 and frame generation, drive incredibly immersive real-time ray tracing experiences, enabling this graphics card to push the limits of how good modern games can look. Housed in a sleek 2.5-slot design that only requires a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD can easily fit into almost any existing build.
The real star of the show, though, is hiding in a special cutout on the rear of the card. With support for M.2 2280-sized NVMe drives, the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD is the first-ever consumer graphics card to offer an onboard SSD slot. When an M.2 drive is mounted to the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD, it may replace the CPU's own M.2 slot on the motherboard. This comes with a few compelling reasons to make the switch to a GPU-mounted M.2 solution.
Compact cooling performance
While the RTX 4060 Ti is a PCIe 4.0-compliant GPU, if both the motherboard and the NVMe drive in a user's system support PCIe 5.0, the drive will operate at full PCIe 5.0 speed. Because of this, ASUS recommends installing the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD in the top PCIe slot on the motherboard, ensuring direct communication with the CPU. With no graphics performance hit in game and no read/write penalties to storage, this card is a straightforward solution for those who need high-speed, long-term storage in their gaming machines.
Why not just install this drive on the motherboard itself? The Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD is equipped with dual Axial-tech fans that keep the card running cool when in game, but these powerful fans also reduce the operating temperatures of the M.2 drive, unlike traditional motherboard M.2 slots. The Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD comes with a thermal pad pre-mounted in the M.2 slot, allowing installed M.2 drives to tap directly into the graphics card heatsink and its massive cooling potential. ASUS testing revealed up to 40% lower temperatures on the drives when attached to the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD, granting longer sustained read/write performance than standard motherboard-mounted M.2 slots and ensuring long-term stability well into the future.
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Reimagined M.2 storage
At its core, this card has all of the same amazing features as the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB. Third-generation RT Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, now featuring DLSS 3.5 and frame generation, drive incredibly immersive real-time ray tracing experiences, enabling this graphics card to push the limits of how good modern games can look. Housed in a sleek 2.5-slot design that only requires a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD can easily fit into almost any existing build.
Compact cooling performance
While the RTX 4060 Ti is a PCIe 4.0-compliant GPU, if both the motherboard and the NVMe drive in a user's system support PCIe 5.0, the drive will operate at full PCIe 5.0 speed. Because of this, ASUS recommends installing the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD in the top PCIe slot on the motherboard, ensuring direct communication with the CPU. With no graphics performance hit in game and no read/write penalties to storage, this card is a straightforward solution for those who need high-speed, long-term storage in their gaming machines.
Why not just install this drive on the motherboard itself? The Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD is equipped with dual Axial-tech fans that keep the card running cool when in game, but these powerful fans also reduce the operating temperatures of the M.2 drive, unlike traditional motherboard M.2 slots. The Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD comes with a thermal pad pre-mounted in the M.2 slot, allowing installed M.2 drives to tap directly into the graphics card heatsink and its massive cooling potential. ASUS testing revealed up to 40% lower temperatures on the drives when attached to the Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD, granting longer sustained read/write performance than standard motherboard-mounted M.2 slots and ensuring long-term stability well into the future.
52 Comments on ASUS Announces Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD Graphics Card
Ever since RTX 30, graphics cards have got thicker and thicker. For those M.2 SSD buried under graphics cards, heat dissalating wouldn't have been a problem if graphics cards were paired with more efficient coolers and still 2-slot thick.
This is like solving problems caused by something else and leaving alone the "problem-causer", rather than solving problem-causing things themselves. Nice try but not brilliant.
The 4060 Ti only uses 8 PCI-E lanes, so why not utilize the other 8 for an NVME on the GPU?
The card is PCI-e 4.0 x8, the other 8 lanes are fake and aren't connected at all, so you're expecting the PCI-e to be x12? Increasing cost and you're paying for that?
videocardz.com/newz/asus-makes-unexpected-gpu-fusion-rtx-4090-as-egpu-through-rtx-4060-tis-m-2-slot
BUT the card itself only has 8 lanes, bro, extra 4 lanes for SSD need extra cost.
Meh, never mind, just I personally don't appreciate any move to make things more complicated e.g. 12VO compicates mainboard power design. So I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me, and I fully respect different opinions.
Update:
Okay I've watched review. So PCI-e lanes isn't a problem. It's 8+4, but still 4 lanes of x16 slot are wasted.
Temperature is better.
So it looks like a decent stuff.
Not sure I see how the fans cool the m.2 unless they have holes through the board so air can flow through/ hit the m.2
Seems more likely the front fans of the case has a better shot at flowing across the gpu backplate.
They put a NVMe slot on a graphic card which is good because the RTX 4060 Ti is one of those new generation of cut cornering of only electrically using x8 lanes of PCI-E leaving another x8 lanes totally unused.
BUT, why the actual NVMe slot linked to the CPU would get hijacked by this card?Please take a look at this on multiple motherboards and see how they react and if Asus at least give you the option for some kind of special bifurcation on the x16 slot (other than x4x4x4x4 for putting Quad NMVMe adapters)
For reference, a GeForce 7400 from 2008 and it's 128MB of DDR2 on 64Bit bus had already 9.4GB/s bandwidth.
Full pictures are already available here:
hothardware.com/news/asus-reveals-a-geforce-rtx-4060-ti--with-a-built-in-m2-slot
Edit: although it is not exactly the same