Does this mean people with older motherboards can use m.2 via this gpu will the motherboard support it?
probably, as long as motherboard has support for pcie bifurcation. Apart from that u can just slap pcie to m2 converter card in any spare pcie slot and enjoy nvme on old hardware. It’ll also probably will cost less than premium of this gpu
This feels cool I guess but it solves a total of one (1) minor issue (in case your motherboard lacks a PCI M.2 slot and you need one) and straight up creates a big issue (PCIe bifurcation) plus a potential whole host of compatibility issues. Still fun to see experimentation happen though. Also don’t really see a future where we move M.2 drives to the GPU fully because most consumer computers don’t have a dedicated GPU.
I actually thought the SSD was FOR the GPU and it would take advantage of the fast NVMe speeds to use it as a slower secondary graphics memory. That’d be a good use of old high-end PCI-4 drives when people start upgrading to PCI-5 ones.
When you don’t have any m.2 slot to spare you can just use any pcie to m.2 adapter instead of this tho
Well, that’s a first, I am shocked that Nvidia even allowed them to do this given how much they have controlled the uniformity of their recent cards. Bit dubious about the application, PCI-E 4.0 SSDs are already pretty hot and slapping in on top of a GPU seems crazy, but the idea is pretty cool.
I don’t think you’ll ever be using pcie 4 ssds to their full speeds so they shouldn’t get that hot.