Installed an SSD on the graphics card
The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti has been heavily criticized for having only 8GB of memory at $400, while the 16GB version will cost $500. What about the Asus RTX 4060 Ti adapter with 2TB of memory?
Of course, no one would equip any video card with such a large amount of video memory. In this case, we are talking about a very unusual adapter that has a slot for an M.2 SSD. A Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB drive was connected to the demo, but of course you can connect any other drive.
This is what the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti looks like with 2 TB of memory
Recall that the RTX 4060 Ti, like many other modern inexpensive or not very expensive video cards, has a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Physically, the card has an x16 slot, but half of the lines are not connected electrically. Thus, it is possible to connect them to use the SSD. In addition, mounting the drive on a graphics card will usually be much easier and more convenient than on a motherboard, where the SSD slot can be covered by a CPU cooler or its own heatsink.
One would think that placing an SSD on the graphics card would exacerbate the heat problem, but in this particular case, the temperature of the drive was even 10 degrees cooler than when installed on the motherboard, since the SSD used a 3D card cooler, and the RTX 4060 itself Ti is cold enough. As for speed indicators, they remained practically unchanged.
