Asus Flaunts graphics card with an M.2 SSD expander card.

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    1 year ago

    Conventional wisdom is that GPUs rarely saturate the PCI bus to the point that all 16 lanes are used heavily. Think even on the higher end cards it’s about a 2-3% loss, so if you need to run something useful like this the trade off can be worth it.

    Directstorage won’t help because it’s still going through the PCI bus. It’ll take a custom implementation to open a direct lane between the GPU and the SSD, and I doubt anyone’s going to undertake a potentially expensive endeavour like this.