The Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC Edition 8GB with M.2 SSD has arrived at numerous retailers in Europe. Twitter PC {hardware} sleuth momomo_us noticed these quirky graphics card with a PCIe M.2 SSD slot at a trio of retailers in Northern Europe. We checked the retailers, which additionally all stocked the identical Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 OC 8GB playing cards with out the SSD enlargement slot, and located price premiums starting from 7 to 19 p.c for the onboard storage choice.Swipe to scroll horizontally
Retailer
Standard OC version
SSD version
Price Increase
Inet SE
5790 kr
6290 kr
9%
Multitronic FI
€470
€560
19%
Webhallen SE
5790 kr
6190 kr
7%
The costs within the desk above aren’t more likely to bear a lot relation to retail costs within the US, however the mark-ups sought by the retailers may very well be echoed within the States; The $399 US customers count on to pay for an Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC Edition 8GB at locations like Newegg, may see some inflation.If US retailers observe the lead of these in Northern Europe, we may see them attempt to pump up the costs from $399 to $427 (7% enhance) and even $475 (19% enhance). Hopefully, competitors amongst US retailers will likely be robust sufficient to keep away from such premiums. However, retailers could also be paying a little bit extra to Asus for these added M.2 SSD slot playing cards.Image 1 of 4(Image credit score: Asus)(Image credit score: Asus)(Image credit score: Asus)(Image credit score: Asus)We first noticed proof of the Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC Edition 8GB with M.2 SSD being ready within the background again in July, when Asus demonstrated a prototype at a Chinese tech occasion.There isn’t so much to say about this RTX 4060 Ti 8GB on the GPU facet of issues, as we now have seen and reviewed this SKU and it has charted amongst our greatest graphics playing cards of 2023.The concept for including storage onboard most likely got here from the truth that many individuals will likely be plugging these graphics playing cards right into a PCIe 16x slot, however the GPU portion solely makes use of eight PCIe lanes. In the prototype, we noticed the additional bandwidth afforded twin M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 slots. However, the blurb accompanying the discharge model of the Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC Edition 8GB with M.2 SSD hints that there’s “a” singular slot for additional storage. Another a part of the Asus product textual content which was shared by momomo_us means that the M.2 slot is “able to PCIe 5.0 speeds.”Since July, once we warned about attainable value hikes affecting this mannequin, Asus has built-in a snap/slide-on cowl for the M.2 drive, which is housed on the backplate space. This seems to be fairly handy for switching M.2 22-upto-80 drives. Moreover, Asus has built-in a Q-Latch so that you don’t must fiddle with screws when putting in or switching the SSD.
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