Video card with M.2 connector

M.2 SSD slot

— the presence of an M.2 slot in the video card for connecting SSD drives.

Such slots are found in video cards with a PCIe 8x connection, which are inserted into the PCIe 16x slot on the motherboard. Accordingly, half of the bandwidth of this connector remains in reserve and can be used just for connecting a solid-state storage medium. The location of the M.2 slot on the video card has its benefits: firstly, the SSD drive can receive additional cooling from the graphics adapter coolers, and secondly, it solves the problem of difficult access to the M.2 connectors on the motherboard (they are often difficult to access). get there precisely because of the video card, especially in compact solutions of the Micro-ATX format).