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
Windows apps except Netflix, all of them suck, no Dolby or atmos and no 4K.
So currently I was thinking to use something like x86 android, for example Asus chromebox, because using a custom x86, as far as I know, DHCP won't work.
Could be an option.
The 8-pin power requirement can be a problem, but I'm not aware of any 4060 with a 6-pin connector, which leads me to believe that the options were to have an 8-pin connector or not use the 4060, and only one of those options ends with a low-profile 4060.
Edit: I didn't understand the Lone Industries L5. Its 80mm case fans go on the front (not under the graphics card), so they won't help much with graphics card cooling and will definitely get in the way of the power connector unless a fan grill is installed or a 180 degree or 90 degree adapter is used or the fan is removed or the fan is only 15mm deep (in which case you'd still have to secure the cable so it doesn't hit the fan).
Why AMD sucks, no VRR and no 10 bit on my Smart TV and random operating system reboots.
Intel only has DirectX 12 by hardware, older DirectX are emulated.
*for RTX 4000-series.
And let's be honest, once the case gets big enough to start "making sense" dimensions-wise for a card like the 4060LP, the case no longer makes sense as a whole, because a sandwich layout (e.g. Densium) would be far more sensible in every single way while being the same size/smaller. Which is why I said that while LP GPUs may be niche and fussy on clearance, it makes even less sense to come out with oddities like this 4060 that make things even more problematic than they already are.
The only cases below 5L that have the space for this 4060LP are the two or three console-style cases (JHACK pure, Skyreach). Or they are sandwich layout, which goes back to my point - APU layout, LP GPU cases are meant to be small, and going over 5L just intrudes on sandwich territory for no reason. And once you are into sandwich territory, there is no reason to get a more expensive LP 4060 anymore :)
A slot-powered version of this, if possible, would be a godsend, even if it the cooler is unchanged.
Here's a work in progress machine I'm building, it will have a much faster CPU/RAM/mobo combination when it's actually 'ready', but the proof of concept so far is working really well.
Inwin Chopin @~3.3L capacity, flexible riser card to get the A2000 in at the bottom, and a 200w micro PSU that needs a 19v external power brick. Currently i5 6500 / 16GB DDR4 2133
[URL='https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/design-visualization/rtx-4000-sff/']RTX 4000 SFF next ;-)[/URL]
Are you on any other sff forums?www.techpowerup.com/312075/gigabyte-quietly-launches-low-profile-geforce-rtx-4060-graphics-card
I just ordered one of these cards today, to replace my rtx A2000. Looking forward to it.
Looks like no chance it will fit in Silverstone ML09B. :(
I was thinking deshrouding it might allow it to fit (+90 deg PCIe adaptor) but that darn heat pipe sticking out might kill that possibility.
1. It's a big card for a low profile one, so I have the same fears as you,
2. It's too expensive for a HTPC upgrade,
3. I still can't find it in any store other than importing it through Amazon US,
4. That HTPC has a 35 W 4th gen i7 with 8 GB RAM which would make the upgrade pretty much pointless.