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.
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.