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ASUS has come out with an interesting hybrid design, the RTX 4060 Ti Dual. The RTX 4060 Ti is designed to use eight PCIe 5.0 lanes, which leaves an additional eight unused assuming you installed it in a PCIe x16 slot. ASUS designed the RTX 4060 Ti Dual with an M.2-2280 slot with full PCIe 5.0 x4 cabling, no bridge or other electronic trickery that can add latency to the SSD. The SSD is hidden under a heat spreader on the GPU backplate, with a notch to separate the flash and controller from some of the heat generated by the GPU.

Thanks to the partitioning that PCIe offers on most motherboards, the lanes are completely separated, so the performance of the Corsair MP700 Pro is almost exactly the same on the GPU as it is when connected to the chipset. If anything, you’ll get a small boost in random reads and writes when the SSD is connected to the GPU. The heat of the PCIe 5.0 SSD is effectively dissipated by the GPU cooler, without the need for an additional heatsink or fan, the TechPowerUp measured just over 50C under heavy load.

It adds quite a bit of extra cost to an already overpriced GPU, but if you need an extra M.2 port, this is one way to get it.