Comments from our users:
samtherat6 - "Actually pretty nifty. Could be done with any modern card too, figure out how much pcie 5.0x16 the GPU will actually need, and give the rest to M.2 drives."
fafarex - "here since the 4060 is x8 only you have by default x8 lane remaning without any possible impact on GPU performance."
danderskoff - "It's really cool for datacenters too. If you're doing GPU farms for high end loads, you can cram way more things in the chassis if this becomes a thing. Sure we're only looking at x8 cards now but in the future with more PCIe revisions we might be able to get more lanes per slot"
BoltTusk - "DirectStorage is now here!"
DimiBlue - "Article said ASUS hadn’t mentioned any claim of direct storage."
Avieshek - "It will support DirectStorage regardless."
DimiBlue - "I mean I hope it does, but it could just as easily be a direct connection to the motherboard. If it was a feature I don’t see ASUS not screaming it from the mountaintops."
dotjzzz - "it could just as easily be a direct connection to the motherboard"
Nihil_Cow - "On the plus side, direct CPU link"
dotjzzz - "It'll only work on 4060Ti and below though."
Nihil_Cow - "I would imagine that’s because a 4070 and higher require more lanes. I was talking about the NVMe not having to go through the chipset."
DimiBlue - "Direct storage is transferring decompression tasks from the cpu to the you, I imagine the goal of adding direct storage to this application would be to bypass the motherboard entirely."
dotjzzz - "What? Do you even read what you wrote?"
DimiBlue - "It does not bypass the cpu, it delegates decompression to the gpu."
Avieshek - "This would be the closest solution to Unified Memory if DirectStorage becomes mainstream."
DimiBlue - "Again, I hope you’re right."
AdarTan - "It's just using the space for PCIe lanes not used by the GPU to implement a m.2 carrier board on the same PCB as the graphics card. Behavior would be identical to an NVMe drive installed anywhere else in the system."
naavifallafel - "Ok Ken M."
Gtp4life - "why would using otherwise unused PCIe lanes on a card for other purposes be illegal? I'm guessing the law is to prevent hidden extra storage being used to record what you're doing and it just unintentionally blocks storage you want to be there?"
