- ASUS RTX 5080 now doubles as AI hardware and amazingly cool SSD Bay
- Thanks to ASUS’s hybrid hardware approach, PCIE LAN is not just for GPUS
- ASUS Multi -LM is developing so AI DEVS models can be offloaded straight to SSDS
The extraordinary Jeffers RTX 5080 GPU, which was first seen with the SSD slot a few weeks ago, is no longer just the strange hardware.
Asus North America has now confirmed that the Proart RTX 5080 SSD edition is a real product.
As extraordinary, the decision to make a high -performance graphics processing pair with solid state storage is a part of the wider project involved in the development of artificial intelligence and local model.
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Despite the release date and the formation of shipping, some technical details, along with some non -response questions, began to emerge.
The biggest surprise is 90 -degree rotating GPU layout – ASUS modified the printed circuit board (PCB) design to put the GPU in the usual direction.
This is not found in any other RTX 5080 models, which suggests a custom approach that adjusts the SSD and improves air flow.
Asus claims that this setting helps SSD to benefit from “air fluids provided by card fans”, though SSD is not in direct contact with central heat sink.
Instead, it is cooled through the secondary hat sink and passive air flow, allegedly holding SSD 10 degrees Celsius cooler than a normal M2 drive installed on the Mother Board.
The SSD integration also exploits two parts of the PCI, which means that unused PCI Express lanes is re -assigned to support the drive.
Earlier, the company applied this approach to RTX 4060 series cards, which did not fully satisfy the PCIE interface, which left enough bandwidth for the M2 slot.
Now, with the RTX 5080 Edition, this idea has been improved according to the high -end AI workflow, although it introduces commercial relationships, but the GPU may not always have access to the PCIE lane, which limits the peak performance under some burden of work.
Perhaps the most important disclosure is in Asus’ software ambitions – the company is developing a tool called Multi -LM, aimed at developers working with large language models.
Asus says, this tool will “allow AI developers to offload directly to storage models, and potentially need to change the system drives without enabling local model development.”
This will be of interest to those who are looking for the best LLM for coding, and hold the RTX 5080 SSD edition more than just one gaming card. It can be one of the best AI’s best tools for local diagnosis and prototycing.
ASUS has only released a single render of the card and has not confirmed the performance measurement or availability.
The question whether this concept provides the meaningful benefits of the real world or only increases the complexity.
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