Saturday, August 5th 2023
Gigabyte Quietly Launches Low Profile GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Card
Low profile graphics cards have always been something of a niche market, but they've found homes in many HTPC builds over the years, especially passively cooled cards. Now Gigabyte has launched a rather odd looking low profile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 based graphics card that simply goes under the name of GeForce RTX 4060 OC Low Profile 8G. The 182 x 69 x 40 (D x H x W) mm card still manages to pack in three fans and requires an 8-pin power connector to work, which somewhat unfortunately plugs in at the rear of the card, although there wouldn't have been too many other locations to place it. This means that this card might not work in some Mini-ITX builds, due to the card being too long once the power connector is plugged in.
The card width should've given away that we're looking at a dual slot card, which is also pretty obvious from the pictures. Gigabyte provides a full height and a low profile bracket with the card, which not all low profile cards have shipped with in the past, so this is a plus. Connectivity wise, the GeForce RTX 4060 OC Low Profile 8G comes with two DP 1.4a and two HDMI 2.1a ports, making this a card well suited for HTPC usage. Gigabyte has even overclocked the GPU from 2460 MHz to 2475 MHz, which seems quite pointless and is unlikely to bring any huge performance advantages over stock clock speeds.
Update Aug 24th: During a recent meeting with Gigabyte we had a chance to go hands-on with their new RTX 4060 Low Profile card, here's some photos.
Sources:
Gigabyte, via VideoCardz
The card width should've given away that we're looking at a dual slot card, which is also pretty obvious from the pictures. Gigabyte provides a full height and a low profile bracket with the card, which not all low profile cards have shipped with in the past, so this is a plus. Connectivity wise, the GeForce RTX 4060 OC Low Profile 8G comes with two DP 1.4a and two HDMI 2.1a ports, making this a card well suited for HTPC usage. Gigabyte has even overclocked the GPU from 2460 MHz to 2475 MHz, which seems quite pointless and is unlikely to bring any huge performance advantages over stock clock speeds.
138 Comments on Gigabyte Quietly Launches Low Profile GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Card
HyperX is a brand, that Kingston bought, then as you said, was sold to HP, so is about the same as Alienware, my point is, why Gigabyte released a Brand instead of creating a line.Is a Gigabyte.
Just get over it, dude. ;)
"Gigabyte MODEL_NAME Aorus + model suffix (like PRO)"
Aorus word always goes right after model name.
the 8-pin is really unfortunate though.
It's one of the most powerful low profile gpus. I think only the A4000 SFF is faster (and ridiculously expensive).
The 4060 is fine for 1080p gaming but even in that resolution there are 3-4-5 games that run below 60fps. Not way lower than 60 ...at 55ish.
It's fine but if it had 10% more performance, it would be great - let alone for the price it asks.
The other thing is the size. Is the low profile that preferable than the ITX gpus?
How much smaller a case can be, so the sacrifice getting a low profile gpu (with the limitation of models) instead of an ITX one is worth it?
There are 4060Ti in ITX format and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a 4070 ITX as some point.
The arguing does need to stop though.
Easy to understand right?! Lol!
HyperX or Crucial, have way way better recognizable as independent brands, but Aorus doesn't seems to be a brand.
Just like every ROG box I have seen says Asus on it.. Ridiculous argument.
"Aorus is a registered sub-brand trademark of Gigabyte belonging to Aorus Pte. Ltd.,[20] which is a company registered in Singapore.[21] Aorus specializes in gaming related products such as motherboards, graphics cards, notebooks, mice, keyboards, SSDs, headsets, cases, power supply and CPU coolers.[22]"
Can we move on, please?
Gigabyte website doesnt mention if the card has Fan-stop feature.
Having triple small diameter fan whining all the time even not gaming is a big let down for me.
What a waste ,because Gigabyte is the only gpu maker putting dual HDMI outputs on their cards which is a must if you are connecting it your tv for different hdr and sdr settings and then they are killing it with other wrong choices.
They did similar mistake with
www.techpowerup.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-4060-windforce-oc/
just check out temperatures and noise from this particular model
cooling looks like a substantial upgrade over a2000 in that regard
a2000 has 30% fan minimum limit
This have some benefits over what i have now. 6 vs. 8 GB vram. Around RTX 3050 vs real rtx 4060 performance, can get ridt of the few problems A2000 gives me in games like in some games when running fullscreen mode i can get a blinking black screen (so some games i have to run i wondows borderles mode to get ridt of screen blinking).
Given what i can hopefully sell my RTX A2000 for vs. 4060 pricing, it should not be a to much of an exspence either.
Still awaiting pricing an aviability before final desicision.
OH, site note for those also considering this cards. If you have a older system with PCIe 3 only, you can exspect to lose 5-10 % performance, do to nvidia doing a cheap out. RTX 4060 only runs PCIe 4 X8. So in a PCIe 3 setup, that would bacically be like running it a PCIe 2 full.Well true. But it also depends on if the fans spins at ilde and at what speed or Gigabyte implement a 0 DB mode on the card. 0 DB mode will give the fans a longer life span.
I can tell my RTX A2000 is almost 1 year old and teh blower fan spins at all time at minimum 3000 RPM and under load around 3800 to 4300 RPM. So far no noise increase or problems. But it has also only been 1 year.
How ı am criticizing some particular brand while i have brands Gigabyte gtx 1050 ti graphic card ?
I used my GTX 580 Matrix Platinum 24/7 for about 7 years, fans are still good..
GTX 980 Classified on 24/7 for 6 years of ownership with me, plus god knows how long with previous owner.. fans are still good.
RTX 3070 Ti in use and on 24/7 for 3 summers, fans are still mint.
Hm..
What i think people are worried about, is that small fans tends to spin at higher rpm than bigger fans, and by that shorten the fans life span besides that of being whinning noisy. Specielly if the card at the same time do not have a 0 db mode/fans stops at ilde/below a pre chosen temperature.
The noise i am not so worried about throw.