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ASUS Announces Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD Graphics Card

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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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Review sample is here, just retesting all my cards at the moment, hope to have the review up soon
Looking forward to your review. I like the storage idea immensely.
 
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It would be surprising if it can use M.2 SSD installed to it as VRAM.
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.
 
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Bullshit, it would just increase heat, but the idea to increase vram like that would be more interresting !!
 
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It would be surprising if it can use M.2 SSD installed to it as VRAM.
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.
This has nothing to do with any of that.

The 4060 Ti only uses 8 PCI-E lanes, so why not utilize the other 8 for an NVME on the GPU?
 
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Yet effective though simple innovation, nice one!
 
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Awesome for ITX builds with limited M.2 slots
 
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This has nothing to do with any of that.

The 4060 Ti only uses 8 PCI-E lanes, so why not utilize the other 8 for an NVME on the GPU?
The article did say cooling effects, ain't it?
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?
 
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Looking forward to your review. I like the storage idea immensely.
if it can allow for any M.2 cards then there are quite a few interesting M.2 cards(capture cards, Sata controllers, etc...) all of which can make this card quite compelling solution for SFF builds.
 
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Awesome for ITX builds with limited M.2 slots

That is an A+ grade for exactly understanding its most useful use case
 
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The article did say cooling effects, ain't it?
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?
The article is a copy of the asus commercial. So they can say what they want to sell it but it really is just that there was a lot of unused pcie lane and so they put a M2 on the Graphics card. The mother board still have 16 lane, so you can totally connect those 8 lane left to anything else. It wasn't really feasable on the RTX3000 because there wasn't that much space left for an M2 Drive.
 

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if it can allow for any M.2 cards then there are quite a few interesting M.2 cards(capture cards, Sata controllers, etc...) all of which can make this card quite compelling solution for SFF builds.
I guess this answers your question.
 
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The mother board still have 16 lane, so you can totally connect those 8 lane left to anything else. It wasn't really feasable on the RTX3000 because there wasn't that much space left for an M2 Drive.
Yeah exactly that's my point bro
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.
 
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Hi,
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.
 
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I like the idea of a pcie on the gpu, like in the previous one or in the vega pro I think it was, I think this can be super useful for limited nvme slot builds in general
 
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This will need the mobo bios to support pcie bifurcation to do anything - that's an extra step for users, and an easy reason for Customer Services to get a call for it not working
 

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Wait... something not alright here...
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?

Review sample is here, just retesting all my cards at the moment, hope to have the review up soon
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)
 
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I really want to see how this performs on a Z790 MB with the top M2 populated.
 
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The M.2 cannot be used as VRAM
Yeah, also imagine the drop of performance between the 4060Ti's GDDR6/128Bits bandwidth of 288 GB/s and NVMe Gen 4x4 max bandwidth is only 8GB/s.
For reference, a GeForce 7400 from 2008 and it's 128MB of DDR2 on 64Bit bus had already 9.4GB/s bandwidth.
 

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Been awhile since posting in any tech forum but for some reason felt compelled to here. I agree that the angle of this being effective for cooling to be more misleading, it really makes no sense to attach like one other person said to the back and where the fans would not help, and again i know most of these are around the GPU which is usually just about the hottest part of the system. Not against adding extra slots or more convenient access to the M.2. I guess the real thing i would want to see on a GPU is up-gradable (swappable like mobo RAM) GDDR slots, not that i really understand the engineering but I would think there is a solution to this. That would seem the most desirable, forward looking thing to engineer into video cards obviously this would detract from some new GPU sales though.
 
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Been awhile since posting in any tech forum but for some reason felt compelled to here. I agree that the angle of this being effective for cooling to be more misleading, it really makes no sense to attach like one other person said to the back and where the fans would not help, and again i know most of these are around the GPU which is usually just about the hottest part of the system. Not against adding extra slots or more convenient access to the M.2. I guess the real thing i would want to see on a GPU is up-gradable (swappable like mobo RAM) GDDR slots, not that i really understand the engineering but I would think there is a solution to this. That would seem the most desirable, forward looking thing to engineer into video cards obviously this would detract from some new GPU sales though.
Looks like it will be right above the CPU as well, radiating that heat into heatsink of your air cooler. I guess an AIO will be required.
 
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