Graphics 22/23 GPU Thread - RTX4000 AND RX7000 Series

In other words they have finally realised there is a market that they haven't completely flooded.

 

Mine may only be a 1080 but it's a Zotac mini, it's little beast that only takes two slots. Think it's about 270mm.

Mind you I think it only has a tdp of 180W.

 

seeing that 4-slot conker of a cooler that may or may not get used for a retail product... it's no wonder that nvidia's idea of 'SFF' is a little off...

And seeing an untapped market AMD's radeon arm will... see what nvidia does and then do that but worse and maybe a bit cheaper.

 

They probably saw how popular both the GB 4060 and the white Galax one was and thought "Hang on, how dare one of our slaves make more money than us !"

 

You'd think they'd be more concerned with their AI profits than rinsing the GPU market.

They do appear to want all of the worlds money.

 

GN did a thing about all of the skus and why they do it.

 

Honestly, if Nvidia wanted to make a genuine effort in the SFF space they should offer their mobile GPUs as regular GPUs...

Imagine something like the 4080 Max-Q on a compact single slot card.

 

They do. At the low-end. the xx50 and xx60 are essentially repackaged laptop parts [likewise on the amd side].

The x8 pci-e link is usually the giveaway that the gpu was intended/designed for laptops first.

 

There's this:-
https://www.techpowerup.com/323665/zephyr-unveils-itx-sized-sakura-blizzard-rtx-4070-graphics-card
A 2-slot, short 4070



It's sort of SFF-sized

 

Given how many niche GPU SKUs that are produced, I'm surprised there aren't any high quality _compact_ cards getting made. All the nicer versions of cards just tend to get fatter rather than just better!

I imagine the SFF market must talk more than they spend.