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Gigabyte's New RTX 4060 GPU Fits Three Fans on a Low-Profile Design
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Despite its slender design, the chip comes outfitted with two DisplayPort and two HDMI ports as well. It also comes with a low-profile bracket, which is a nice touch. While it's nice that Gigabyte has made a 40-series chip specifically for low-profile builds, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 isn't that great of a card to begin with. The GPU barely outpaces the older (and slightly more expensive) 3060 Ti, as it comes with an underwhelming 8GB of VRAM and a 128-bit memory bus.
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This GPU doesn't use much power, just 115 watts.
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You could run them slower?
If they could make it quieter than their competitors, it would have a good place in the market for low-profile machines.
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We should use these as rotating lounges. The funny thing is review isn’t even flattering. I guess the most important thing is getting the words and link featured on/.
At least they’re paying the bills and not turning the site into something else like it seemed like Dice was gonna do.
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by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:08PM (#63747690)
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Which, given the demand for GPUs in the cloud, doesn't make sense to me.
They should be making massively dense boxes of these things.
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Because three smaller fans are less efficient than one large fan.
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50% more fans = 50% faster CPU.;)
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Airflow is airflow. Those go into VERY constrained spaces. Not tons of extra airflow room either.
To get it small they removed heatsink surface area. That's what was transfering the heat before. Now greater airflow can make up for the shift.
What is the common TDP for cards there? I don't use these, so maybe 115 watts is a lot (comparatively)?
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Your motherboard was not designed for gaming and shouldn't have a 4090 in it.
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haha, man. the first pc video card i ever owned had two megabytes of vram and that felt *huge*. how times change!:)
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Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 isn't that great of a card to begin with.
Not all of us are engaging in a fps pissing contest. We don't need every conceivable rendering feature enabled. If you have to take screen shots and zoom into pixels to tell the difference I can probably do without the feature during play.
What makes the 4060 nice is a process shrink that allows for lower power / cooler operations. Some of us wait for these process shrinks to get a cooler, quieter card. If you can hear your GPUs fan, that's not quite a win, that's a tradeoff.
Personally I have not had a problem using such cards over decades of gameplay. Current video games tend not to require the latest and greatest cards.-
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The 4060 just came out.
Its not the only card available that matches what I described.
Usage numbers show the most common card in July on Steam was a "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650".
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Agree fully with your points.
Plus, their design of the card only being (what looks like) half height ALSO will much help with the general airflow inside any case. It's not just that you have to get heat off the card, but if you're outputting 35C+ air into a case that's already 35C ambient, it's not going to do you much good.Personally I've found a lot of the very high end cards tend to use (probably no choice) the furthest reaches of the slot envelope, making it hard to to address some of the practicalitie
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I'd state this differently. "It's relative..."
The parent obviously used or compared against high end cards. What is available makes this seem weak.
The constraints are the "special sauce" though. You can't compare against a 5090 or whatever. And I'm not an expert in these little things either.
Perf/result per $ (and per watt, both) seem like useful graphs of low profile cards to use when looking for why this might be special. Constrain down to the size and you can't remove 200+ watts of heat.
I'm sure lot
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The problem with the card is that you can get a cheaper card that draws less power and have similar performance by buying a card from the previous generation.
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It's not so much that the current video games require more graphics power, but that people are awakening to the benefits of higher resolution screens (i.e. more than 1080p) and multiple screens.
I have a triple screen set-up, so you can imagine how well a card designed for just one would fare.
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