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An Nvidia graphics card with 64GB of memory? The Geforce G-Assist review

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Hello everyone. Today we are gonna take a look at the Nvidia graphics card with 64GB of memory. This is a limited edition of the GTX1080 with 64GB memory. Nvidia only released a very limited number of those. Ok I’m just kidding. This is actually an Nvidia Flash drive. Things all started from an April fool’s joke. Nvidia claims it is a new product called G-Assist and is packed with packed with deep learning algorithms.

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It turned out of course, this is not real. However Nvidia did made some of these flash drives, and gave it out to influencers and media, as well as the first 1080 of the registered user on Geforce Experience.

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I found it lying in the drawer when I was cleaning out some of the old hardware. It comes with a box that looks identical to the Founder’s Edition Pascal cards. Let’s crack open the box, and see what’s inside. As you expected, it looks exactly like a founder’s edition GTX1080.

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 It replicate all the details so well. It almost looks like a real GTX1080 if you scale it right in the picture. 

 

 Now let’s plug it in and see how it performs as an actual flash drive. Before we run the benchmarks, let’s use a handy tool called Chipgenius to check the controller and NAND chip it’s using. According to the software, it’s using a Innostor IS903-A5 controller paired with two Toshiba Toggle MLC chips in dual channel mode.

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For comparison here, let’s use a Kingston Hyper Savage 128GB flash drive. It is a fairly old product but it’s still one of the top performers in the market today.

 

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It is rated for 350MB/s read and 250MB/s write. It is using a Phison 2251-08 controller and is also using Toshiba MLC NAND chips.

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 Let’s fire up some crystal diskmark to see how it performs. Here are the results. 

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It’s certainly not the fastest flash drive on the market, but it’s definitely not the worst. Nvidia gave it away anyways so I can’t really complain. This is really meant more for collectors and would be a cool piece of collection on the shelf.

 

You can check out more about the flash drive in my Youtube video: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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you're a little behind the curve

 

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1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

you're a little behind the curve

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Yeah it's a fairly old product. I just found it in the drawer when I was cleaning out some old hardware. I didn't realize Linus did a video on this tho...

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3 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Linus already made a video about these 3 years ago. Also I believe self promoting isn't allowed on the forum.

 

Yeah I didn't realize Linus did a video on this already. According to the rules you can include your video as long as it's original, and does not contain advertisement. 

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do you have really small hands or is that flash drive really big

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15 minutes ago, cagoblex said:

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You should wait for the tests to finish so we know what they are...

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Proxmox Server (Veda): Ryzen 7 3800XT | AsRock Rack X470D4U | Corsair H80i v2 | 64GB Micron DDR4 ECC 3200MT/s | 4x 10TB WD Whites / 4x 14TB Seagate Exos / 2× Samsung PM963a 960GB SSD | Seasonic Prime Fanless 500W | Intel X540-T2 10G NIC | LSI 9207-8i HBA | Fractal Design Node 804 Case (side panels swapped to show off drives) | VMs: TrueNAS Scale; Ubuntu Server (PiHole/PiVPN/NGINX?); Windows 10 Pro; Ubuntu Server (Apache/MySQL)


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Network:

Spoiler 
                           ┌─────────────── Office/Rack ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Google Fiber Webpass ────── UniFi Security Gateway ─── UniFi Switch 8-60W ─┬─ UniFi Switch Flex XG ═╦═ Veda (Proxmox Virtual Switch)
(500Mbps↑/500Mbps↓)                             UniFi CloudKey Gen2 (PoE) ─┴─ Veda (IPMI)           ╠═ Veda-NAS (HW Passthrough NIC)
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╩═ Narrative (Asus USB 2.5G NIC)
║ ┌────── Closet ──────┐   ┌─────────────── Bedroom ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
╚═ UniFi Switch Flex XG ═╤═ UniFi Switch Flex XG ═╦═ Byarlant
   (PoE)                 │                        ╠═ Narrative (Cable Matters USB-PD 2.5G Ethernet Dongle)
                         │                        ╚═ Jesta Cannon*
                         │ ┌─────────────── Media Center ──────────────────────────────────┐
Notes:                   └─ UniFi Switch 8 ─────────┬─ UniFi Access Point nanoHD (PoE)
═══ is Multi-Gigabit                                ├─ Sony Playstation 4 
─── is Gigabit                                      ├─ Pioneer VSX-S520
* = cable passed to Bedroom from Media Center       ├─ Sony XR65A80K (Google TV)
** = cable passed from Media Center to Bedroom      └─ Work Laptop** (Startech USB-PD Dock)

 

Retired/Other:

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59 minutes ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

do you have really small hands or is that flash drive really big

The flash drive is pretty big...

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50 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

You should wait for the tests to finish so we know what they are...

Sorry it was from a screen shot in the video. Will fix that in a sec. But this is the same as the final result tho. 

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