GALAX Unveils Low-profile GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Card

[btarunr]

The biggest benefit of the GeForce RTX 4060 "Ada" being based on the tiny AD107 silicon, and needing just four memory chips, is its tiny PCB footprint. This allows low-profile RTX 4060 graphics cards, as board partners found out. The GALAX RTX 4060 low-profile graphics card just made its debut in the Japan—a huge market for SFF and low-profile desktop PC hardware. The card is 18.2 cm long, and is exactly 6.9 cm tall, or what constitutes half-height. The card is 2 slots thick, and uses an aluminium fin-stack cooling solution that uses a trio of 40 mm fans.

Despite its limited PCB real-estate, the low-profile GALAX RTX 4060 wires out four display connectors—two each of DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1a. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector at the tail-end of the card (so you might need a little extra clearance there). The most striking aesthetic aspect of the card is its all-white PCB, which combined with the white cooler shroud and fans, contrast the fin-stack heatsink. Out of the box, the card comes with its full-height bracket, which can be replaced with the included low-profile bracket. GALAX isn't the only brand with low-profile RTX 4060 cards, there are also such cards from ASUS and GIGABYTE.



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[Dirt Chip]

No reason for more for this low end GPU

 

[Knight47]

It's nice, but where do I get a external psu to power this thing and a 12100f that dont cost an arm and leg?

 

[TheDeeGee]

No reason for more for this low end GPU

For those wanting a horizontal GPU in a HYTE case

 

[Tomgang]

So now there are 3 lp rtx 4060 out in the wild. I have the gigabyte card.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Looks identical to the gigabyte model.

 

[Pooch]

Once again who is writing this stuff? Low profile means it takes up less space than a regular profile card does. This is not low profile. Please look up what low profile means.

 

[Cheeseball]

WHITE PCB, yes

This is basically a clone of the Gigabyte model, comparing with the pics.

 

[JasBC]

The shroud is metal for some reason.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Once again who is writing this stuff? Low profile means it takes up less space than a regular profile card does. This is not low profile. Please look up what low profile means.

There is no formal definition AFAIK of "low profile" for AT-family expansion cards. This does meet the definition of "half-height", which the release does mention.

 

[cvaldes]

The shroud is metal for some reason.

Metal conducts heat better. This type of card would be better utilized in a case with good airflow; the shroud itself would act as a dissipative surface, like part of the heatsink.

 

[mechtech]

Be nicer if it was a laptop part with no need for external power. Also be nice if there was an RX6600 laptop chip in this form factor as well with no external power requirement.

All those small cases with no decent gpu due to size and power..................

Coworker bought a used HP or Dell business pc on newegg or whoever on the cheap and basically stuck with integrated intel. These cards cost more than the PC. Even a crappy RX6400 is over $200CAD!!

 

[cvaldes]

Be nicer if it was a laptop part with no need for external power. Also be nice if there was an RX6600 laptop chip in this form factor as well with no external power requirement.

All those small cases with no decent gpu due to size and power..................

Coworker bought a used HP or Dell business pc on newegg or whoever on the cheap and basically stuck with integrated intel. These cards cost more than the PC. Even a crappy RX6400 is over $200CAD!!

It really depends on the usage case. I recall that some of these low-end SFF graphics cards provide AV1 hardware encoding support, some do not.

A lot of these are getting the cursory "for gamers" promotional webpage graphics on the corporate site even if the main audience is likely enterprise/corporate customers who have usage scenarios that require multiple monitors (e.g., stock traders) that aren't so easily handled by an iGPU-powered desktop PC.

 

[Nostras]

Once again who is writing this stuff? Low profile means it takes up less space than a regular profile card does. This is not low profile. Please look up what low profile means.

Low-profile is synonymous to half-height when we're talking about graphics cards. Just because it's not strictly correct according to a dictionary or whatever you're referring to does not necessarily mean that it is wrong, especially so if the vast majority calls it low-profile. I'd argue that the definition should be updated to include half-height graphics cards if it does not do so already.

 

[Chrispy_]

Why waste effort/money on a white PCB? I can't think of any SFF's needing low-profile cards that have a window, and the only white mITX board of recent years is from JGinYue.
Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, MSI do not have any modern mITX boards in white, as far as I can see.

If the cost of making it white is minimal then that's fine I guess, but presumably if white boards cost no more than black boards to make, companies wouldn't all be charging a premium for it.

WHITE PCB, yes

This is basically a clone of the Gigabyte model, comparing with the pics.

What case are you using where you need half-height but can see the GPU?

 

[cvaldes]

Why waste effort/money on a white PCB? I can't think of any SFF's needing low-profile cards that have a window, and the only white mITX board of recent years is from JGinYue.
Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, MSI do not have any modern mITX boards in white, as far as I can see.

If the cost of making it white is minimal then that's fine I guess, but presumably if white boards cost no more than black boards to make, companies wouldn't all be charging a premium for it.

Japan's PC market is semi-isolated from the rest of the world. This is nothing new, over multiple decades there are tons of Japanese consumer electronics that have never been exported.

They have weird (and sometimes wonderful) stuff that you'll never see on Amazon, NewEgg, Best Buy, or Micro Center. Even in the Eighties they had bizarre things like combination radio-toasters.

The Japanese themselves behave a little differently, politely queueing up to buy the latest graphics cards at midnight. There are patterns and colorways that are never marketed to the West because fatass Taco Bell swilling, Redbull chugging Joe Consumer has zero appreciation for those aesthetics.

This is why trips to the Akihabara and Yodobashi districts have been a longtime ritual for Western nerds visiting Japan: to gawk over stuff they've never seen before. And no, social media (YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram) never fully captures this stuff.

 

[Cheeseball]

What case are you using where you need half-height but can see the GPU?

 

[Chrispy_]

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That looks full-height, not half-height to me. Unless you have really really small hands

 

[Cheeseball]

That looks full-height, not half-height to me. Unless you have really really small hands

Of course I have the half-height mount for it too. Looks similar to this: (not my picture)

 

[Keullo-e]

Gotta wonder how they can't make a version without a power connector of this snail of a GPU.

 

[Chrispy_]

Gotta wonder how they can't make a version without a power connector of this snail of a GPU.

Uh, 130W through a 75W motherboard slot?!

Even most laptop models use 95-115W variants of the 4060 and whilst I've seen one with a 55W TGP, it's utterly pointless buying a 4060 over a 4050 with that low a TGP, because even the 4050 is limited in benchmarks by a 75W TGP (notebookcheck.de)

The really shocking thing is just how much Nvidia have tuned the AD107 for efficiency on desktop. I guess it might be because there's no point throwing higher core clocks at a card crippled by its memory subsystem. Just 8GB of slow 17gbps GDDR6 further restricted by a narrow 128-bit bus that doesn't have much cache to hide the lack of bandwidth.

 

[Keullo-e]

Uh, 130W through a 75W motherboard slot?!

Even most laptop models use 95-115W variants of the 4060 and whilst I've seen one with a 55W TGP, it's utterly pointless buying a 4060 over a 4050 with that low a TGP, because even the 4050 is limited in benchmarks by a 75W TGP (notebookcheck.de)

The really shocking thing is just how much Nvidia have tuned the AD107 for efficiency on desktop. I guess it might be because there's no point throwing higher core clocks at a card crippled by its memory subsystem. Just 8GB of slow 17gbps GDDR6 further restricted by a narrow 128-bit bus that doesn't have much cache to hide the lack of bandwidth.

Binned GPUs which can undervolt better or something.

 

[cvaldes]

Binned GPUs which can undervolt better or something.

Why? These are destined to go inside SFF PC cases that likely have at least one available PCIe cable from the PSU.

There are undoubtedly notebook GPUs that fall within the power constraints to make a cableless AIB but there's probably little demand for a Frankencard outside of China.