Best Low Profile GPU for a Dell Optiplex

In this video I compare 5 low profile graphics cards in a Small Form Factor Dell Optiplex. Which one is best? - Of course there are more options but these are the ones I have at that moment.

Optiplex 9020 SFF
I7-4790
16 GB RAM

00:00 Intro
01:06 The GPU's
02:50 RX 550
06:30 WX 4100
09:02 RX 6400
11:24 GTX 1050 TI
14:19 RTX 3050
17:49 Outro

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[kellyngrey]

Loved this. I appreciate low end gaming and preventing ewaste by simple upgrades to computers.

[honahwikeepa]

I found one (9020) in some street trash outside our son's place. It was clean on the inside so I put in an SSD and it worked perfect. Just need a decent gpu.

[Mampersand]

Some important context for these benchmarks:

The RX6400 is a Pcie x4 Gen 4 that’s probably running in the x16 Gen 3 slot. This probably results in a bit of a dip performance wise

The RTX 3050 is a PCIE x8 card running in either Pcie 2 or 3 x4 slot. If @basicdadtech could provide insight over which gen pcie the x4 slot is that’d be helpful. In any case, the 3050 is being bottlenecked more than the 6400.

[blk]

This was the video I was exactly looking for. I was undecided as to what low profile graphics I wanted to get and was stuck between the 6400 and 3050. After seeing your video I came to the conclusion I was looking for ! You saved me some money sir!

[amdhehe]

My friend got a Dell Optiplex 5050 sff with i5 7600, I recommended the rx 6400 as it was the only one i could find locally that fits in this pc. I thought it would still suck, but i'm Glad to see it is actually the best card that can actually fit in that PC.

[empireants]

This was an awesome video. Thank you for taking the time to make this!

[maximustitan]

Thanks for the time. Interesting was that, I have all of these cards cheers.

[mystscot]

Thanks for your video, I was after a low profile graphics card for my Minisforum 795S7 mini-ITX, ended up purchasing the RX6400, the motherboard has PCIe 5.0 ×16. I decided to go the small form factor route since I don't play for many hours of gaming these days, played FH4 and FH5, Age of Empires IV, all seem to play very smoothly on 1080p medium settings.

[TsjuunTze]

The PICe ports on those sff dell systems are limited to 50 watts max. Not the 75 Watts of a full size desktop. Sure they run cards that need more, but the system will not be (long term) stable. a RX6400 is 52 Watts TDP. and a RX550 is 50 Watts TDP. Those will work fine. I would not use a GTX 1050ti or RTX 3050 for anything else than testing.

[danielsnyder]

I have what looks like this one, a Dell Optiplex 9020 with a i7-4790. Not trying to run modern games but used as a Windows XP platform for retro gaming. Using a Quadro K620 as the gpu. Amazing that this platform performs this well with some targeted upgrades.

[balaam_]

Something funny happened as I watched this. During the GTA5 benchmark YouTube suddenly switched to an ad, but it bugged out and didn’t show the little ‘sponsored’ tag and the countdown timer. It was a travel resort ad on some beach that looked very similar to the GTA5 environments in that game. It switched so seamlessly it took me a moment to realize I wasn’t watching GTA5 anymore, and I thought ‘Wow I dont remember the game looking this good!’ 🤣

[IsphynxI]

This helped me a lot on deciding which GPU to shove in my dell optiplex 5050 sff, and I'm definitely going with the rx 6400 low profile

[EpicTyphlosionTV]

If you're like me, you'd be absolutely stoked to upgrade your hand-me-down PC, only to find out Dell put the x16 slot on the bottom in your model and you can't put in any full height cards...

[jotabe]

to me the best way to go in a MicroITX enviroment is to get a modest DDR4 CPU like an R5 1600af (of course in a microITX a320 mobo) w/stock cooler + 32gb (2x16 3200mhz) DDR4 RAM + NVME 500gb SSD + 1x1TB SATA3 SSD

all of that leaves something in the order of 150 to 200w free psu juice for a dedicated GPU.
None of these GPUs will be good enough for 1080p gaming, so mi go-to-solution would be to get a 1600x900 HDMI 19' display. The lower resolution will be partially compensated with the smaller screen size, and the GPUs will thank the 30% smaller resolution (that is a 30% improvement over 1080p results).
Yet you can allways go with a 1080p screen and lower game resolution to 900p, that could still work

[littlewillie]

I have 5 sff Optiplexes (okay, technically one of them is the desktop case, but it's still low profile) - 2-3rd gen I5, 1-2nd gen I5, 1-2nd gen I7, and a core 2 duo. I did a very similar benchmark run as you did (but with Passmark Performance test, 3DMark, and Superposition) . The cards I used ranged from the mobo video (which was predictably horrible), 3 cards that actually were OEM from Dell (HD7570, R5 240, R7 250), GT 710 and 1030, Arc A380, RX6400, and RTX 3050-6. Most of the results matched what you got between the top 2 contenders - though I found the RX6400 tended to edge out the RTX on older benchmarks - though it was only moderately better on the Ray Tracing tests than the Arc A380.

The A380, RX6400, and RTX 3050 were all purchased new on Amazon (as were the 2 GT cards) The rest were bought used (except for the R7-250 which I actually pulled from the Optiplex it was factory installed in). The 6400 and 3050 were very similarly priced, with the a380 being about $50 less. I also tested a Nvidia Quadro T400, which cost too much for what it was (a Lenovo OEM pull) and only performed marginally better than the 1030.

By comparison, a full sized gtx1650 was a bit faster than all of them (ray tracing excepted of course) - I can't offer an opinion on the performance of a low profile version.

Lastly, the RX6400 performs better in a more modern motherboard - but if you have the money for a more modern Optiplex, you probably won't have the money for the video card. Also, the 6400 has NO video encoders, so don't expect any decent game capturing with this card.

[Kenny-txps]

Man I just asked you about this😂👌 brilliant thanks for this video to explain what people should be looking for👊

[lalalu]

Thanks for the review. Very handy. Just got a RTX A2000(need to mod the case as it as 2 pin sticking out)runs well and makes my 9020 as good as my full tower gaming pc.

[krtmanmining]

Love low pro gpus, 1650 and the a2000 are also solid choices if u can get them for a good deal

[Crazyjacket]

May god bless you and your family, This has helped me a LOT to decide what gpu to buy🙏🏼

[digitalizeddeath]

My low profile collection in my GPU Cluster of Optiplex Small Form Factors are the GTX 1650, GTX 1630, GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1050, GT 1030, RX 550, RX 6400, Arc A310, Quadro P620, RTX 3050 and RTX 4060