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
Fun fact that the 1050 Ti in my other HTPC is also passively cooled (albeit, full height). :)
Maybe if you gut the USB ports from the case, would make your life easier. Haven't checked if the length physically fits in ML09B even with I/O removed. I personally would go that route but it might be ugly/sharp edges to cut your fingers on.
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Yep 175mm to the I/O. The 4060LP needs 182mm. The I/O takes up 15mm so removing the I/O should free up enough space. It does look like that heatpipe might clear the I/O with the shroud removed but without having more card measurements I can't be certain.
I'm happy I went the passive route with a 35 W i7 that chugs along happily with an Arctic-branded chunk of aluminum on top of it. :) That cooler literally doesn't take more space than the CPU itself.
Also, I've got some thin case fans, but I'd remove them if the GPU wasn't passive also.
I'll post pics in my blog (signature below) soon.
Silverstone ML09B eagerly awaits and my first Nvidia experience since the GTX 1060 3GB and K600.
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www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/final-fantasy-xiv-endwalker-gpu-benchmark-post-your-scores.284408/post-5142894
Since this thread is picked up in google searches I've included the link here for the additional mods to make it easier to find.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/small-form-factor-gaming-build-log-and-support-forum-for-new-builders.283022/post-5167131