Because the Graphic card The smallest Ada Lovelace currently on the market is not the one you think.
While waiting for the release of the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti, one might think that the recent GeForce RTX 4070 is the most compact of the new generation from NVIDIA. It is not so.
Less than 17 centimeters long
The card that has the right to the title of the most compact Ada Lovelace is difficult to find, because it is a model intended for the fairly closed market of “SFF” solutions for small form factor.
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In other words, we are talking about a card designed precisely for its compactness and which is characterized by its so-called low profile or half-height design: it does not occupy the classic height of the PCIe cards that we are used to. , but… half (“ there are six that follow »© Coluche).
In fact, you can see from the photos, she is incredibly small. The dimensions announced by its manufacturer, PNY, are only 16.7 centimeters long and 6.6 cm high. Nothing to do with an RTX 4070 Verto from the same manufacturer (24.7 x 12 cm).
No less than 6,144 CUDA cores
Such a format has an impact on the potential of the card and this NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation, as it is called by PNY, will obviously not compete with the RTX 4090.
On the other hand, it has characteristics that are sometimes superior to those of the RTX 4070 with a GPU comprising as many transistors (35.8 billion), but more CUDA cores (6,144 against 5,888). It should also be noted that the card has 20 GB of GDDR6 ECC on a different 160-bit interface bus for a relatively limited bandwidth of 320 GB/s.
On the power side, PNY advances 19.2 TFLOPS in FP32 and underlines the presence of four Mini DisplayPort 1.4a connectors. Finally, the manufacturer mentions a consumption of only 70 Watts, which allows it to do without any power connector: the PCIe is enough.
The NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation will not be found at all retailers and, professional card obliges, it is offered at a price that will deter many users, even to mount an ultra compact case, it is at 1,444.22 dollars at ShopBLT.
Source : TechPowerUp
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