This Tiny GPU Packs Some SERIOUS Power!!! - RTX 4000 Ada Generation SFF Review

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Small form factor GPUs are a thing of the past. These days, GPUs are pushing 4 slots tall, and like Pontiac in the 90s, it seems wider is better. The RTX 4000 Ada Generation SFF is a professional card that challenges every concept of what makes a graphics card worth buying, and crams it all into a half height, half length package that draws only 70W of power. This thing is absolutely insane, and delivers unmatched power/L in your system.

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[darkace]

A price to performance comparison of the RTX 4000 and the new 4060 low profile would be interesting.

[Teksers]

Great performance. In about 3 years I'll be able to afford and buy one.
I hope that SFF cards will be more frequent in the future not just for workstation cards buty also consumer. For cunsumer right now we only have the RTX 4060 from Gigabyte and no one else and that needs 4 pin power.

[ChrisPkmn]

Thank you for reviewing these! I love seeing a gpu get outclassed by a lower power draw, more vram, and better performance - to me that is what progress is all about

[Maisonier]

Could you include some numbers on image generation with Stable Diffusion, running an LLM, Blender, along with a graph showing the relationship between power consumption and results for this GPU, please? Excellent video, as always.

[MrFoof]

Around 3060 to 3060 Ti performance for 70W is actually interesting, depending on what folks want them for. I assume they come with full height brackets as well? They'll be interesting to see what they fetch on the used market in a few years, and what the 5000-series SFF will bring in 2025.

[Wirenfeldt]

[Angrily shakes fist] I settled for the 4060 LP personally

Edit: i kinda wish you had used a 4060 for comparison instead, but, 🤷

[Draelren]

Been waiting for this ever since we drag raced the ex-boxes, those numbers are damn impressive!

[fordonmekochgalenskaper]

Use 6 RTX 4000, 2 in my workstation and 2 in each server that are built as render farm, but I don't play games
The A-series card is also possible to NVlink for dubble the Vram and use two cards as one

[p_snter]

@Jeff, you should take a look at the Intel ARC A30, A40, A50 and A60 cards with the A50 being the same size and form factor the RTX A4000 SFF. Obviously, they won't be as powerful BUT are cheaper options and the same form factor

[ilijazafirov]

I have the A2000 6GB and using it in an HP office PC with Intel 8700 CPU, it was my temporary replacement PC while i was rebuilding my gaming rig. It's solid enough for gaming, I even played PC VR games on it, but the more demanding VR games sometimes crash. I will keep it in that office PC or get a better one with better CPU and reuse it, it is a great GPU to have. It was good to see the comparison with the A4000 SFF card and i have been waiting for it for months already. Sadly the A4000 SFF is too pricey and just not worth it for us mere mortals.

[rudder]

I personally would like to see more gaming cards in such a form factor, unfortunately it may come at a steep premium unfortunately. Anyway great vid and it's always interesting to see how much you can get out of different architectures with such a low wattage and it honestly surprises me with this one.

[spazda_mx]

Looking forward to getting one of these in about 2031.

[LostInTimeIndustries]

Hey man, absolutely amazing breakdown comparison video I have seen! I am looking to build a workstation and haven't paid tech any attention for 2 years😂 So here we go! Thank you for the content, and you just got another sub!

[rushunt]

I wanted one of these since it came out. Thanks for reviewing it !!!

[paulbrooks]

Ooo I want to see this in your cloud gaming build. This would be awesome in a 1U, split between two people it may give good performance with enough VRAM. I’d love to see two 1080p RTX games running on VMs at the same time!

[hudsonreynolds]

Love this video. Amazing content as always Jeff!

[angieandretti]

I think they're great. I'd love to build an SFF gaming machine around one of these. It's just... so cute! And yes, I'd absolutely support nVidia releasing SFF gaming cards.

[ianide]

Only speaking from the CAD software that I have deployed; Solidworks, NX, and AutoCAD for my users at work. These CAD packages run FAR better on workstation graphics that are speced below your average 3060 and they kind of run like crap on your normal off the shelf "gaming" cards. The reason is the workstation graphics drivers. There is some magic in the drivers that is not available on consumer cards that allows them to run better on these CAD packages. Even on just a single 3D, relatively non complicated, model (not a large assembly) the performance difference is visibly noticeable. Exactly the same performance difference that can be likened to seeing a lot frame drops in a game. If all you need is CAD performance for these CAD packages, it just needs to be workstation class and I would never recommend that price tag for this use case. I'd just spend the dollars on something 3-4 generations old in the mid tier of workstation class.

[Spreadie]

I have a 4 litre uSFF gaming PC that has been home to a GT1650 LP, an RTX A2000 and, most recently, the Gigabyte RTX 4060 LP, all of them run fine on a 250W GaN PSU. I would love the RTX 4000 SFF, but it cost four time the price of the 4060 LP and, if my A2000 was anything to go by, the 4060 LP is much much quieter. The one thing I didn't like about the A2000 was the minimum 30% fan speed ( yeah, I modded mine to run the fan off a motherboard header, via an adapter cable).

However, even undervolted to ~ 90W, the 4060LP still draws more power than the A2000 & A4000 SFF. I'd love to see a third party A4000 SFF with the same cooler as Gigabyte uses on the 4060 LP. That'd be the current pinnacle of the SFF GPU world. We can dream.

[droknron]

A great little card. I've been thinking about getting the single-slot full-height version of this for a server where I don't want to lose two expansion slots to one card. The price premium is spicy for both versions of this card but it certainly packs a punch for its size.