A graphics card and an SSD walk into a bar...
The Asus Dual RTX 4060 Ti SSD is an innovative solution that can genuinely benefit an appropriate system. Sure, it has a fairly niche appeal, but its great to see an option like this come to market to make Gen5 SSDs a little more appealing. It's 10% price premium isn't utterly unreasonable either.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.
The RTX 4060 Ti includes an unimpressive 128-bit bus. That just doesn't feel right in a 2024 mid-range graphics card. It's a clear regression over the 256-bit bus of the RTX 3060 Ti. However, Nvidia's choice to include a larger on-die L2 cache goes some way to offsetting that. Basically, the RTX 4060 Ti is a very good 1080p gaming option. Apart from very demanding titles, such as Cyberpunk 2077 with the ray tracing options turned up, it's easily capable of over 60 fps in virtually all titles. It's not the worst 1440p option either, but at 4K it it'll definitely run out of steam. You can always turn on DLSS or Frame Generation for a more than healthy boost though, even at lower resolutions if you have a high refresh rate screen..
However, it is worth noting that I had some troubles enabling bifurcation, even though Asus' recent BIOS changelogs make explicit mentions of adding support for this specific card. Bifurcation is the specific feature which allows the splitting up of PCIe lanes into different lanes, for example allowing you to split a x16 PCIe slot into two discrete x8 options.
Temperatures were a concern of mine going into this review. In the end there was no issue. The GPU SSD slot returned a peak temperature of 77°C. That's nothing to worry about, and only two degrees above what I recorded when the drive was parked under the motherboard's own chunky integrated heatsink.The Asus Dual RTX 4060 Ti's SSD slot is a great way to add a PCIe Gen 5 slot to systems that don't have one, only have only one.
As long as your motherboard has the correct bifurcation support, the Asus Dual RTX 4060 Ti SSD is a smart way to add support for the fastest PCIe Gen 5 SSDs with no real downside. Your SSD will run to the limits of its performance, and it'll stay cool. It's a great way to add an extra SSD to small form factor motherboards that lack motherboard mounted slots, and even the price of the card isn't too bad. I believe a 10% price increase is justified given the extra SSD functionality.
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