Why did companies give up on low profile GFX cards?

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He said low profile (LP), not single slot. There was an LP 750TI, I don't remember if it was single or double slot. If you need single slot and LP you are right, those are going to be older cards. I think the best/most recent card I saw in that case was a GT730. AMD cards seemed to be even older 5xxx or 7750.
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I think it had more to do with the problems they experienced with process architecture. To keep making things smaller and faster and use less power, they relied on die shrinks. The 750 ti has been the go to sff card for nearly 3 years now because they were stuck on the 28 nm process. Because of the problems and delays with 22/20 nm they wound up skipping it and went directly to 16/14. In the meantime they did keep offering new designs, but they generally wound up being larger, hotter, and more power hungry cards unsuitable for sff.

MSI has already announced some low profile 1050 series cards. So far I haven't heard anything about any low profile 460's, but there's a bunch of people clamoring for them.
 
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is that a low profile card? the card in the link looks like its low profile but it still takes up 2 slots

 
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Thanks for the link.

900 series? I haven't seen any. They are waking up to the demand. Smaller market but not everyone wants a full or mid atx tower. I think they stopped due to cooling solutions, maybe.
 
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i'm assuming it has to with cooling as well. not sure you could cool a 200w+ card with a single fan trying to cool a very cramped pcb. spacing the stuff out is part of how it stays a bit cooler. the smaller card would cram all the stuff much c;loser together making it even harder to cool with the small fan allowed by a LP card.

low powered crads like the 750ti, and the new 1050/1050 ti got the treatment since they are easier to work with on a smaller pcb.

His has released a true single slot rx 460 as well. but it is longer since the thinner cooling has to be larger to compensate. not gonna see both i don't think anymore. a single slot, low profile card would have to be a 50w card or less to make it work almost passively due to minimal cooling possible.
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card
"Video cards for desktop computers come in one of two size profiles, which can allow a graphics card to be added even to small-sized PCs. Some video cards are not of usual size, and are thus categorized as being low profile.[8][9] Video card profiles are based on width only, with low-profile cards taking up less than the width of a PCIe slot. Length and thickness can vary greatly, with high-end cards usually occupying two or three expansion slots, and with dual-GPU cards -such as the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690- generally exceeding 10" in length."
 
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And then there are the mini cards. The 1060, 1070 and other cards come in mini sizes which are not as long as the original version which is more forgiving for some cases where an immovable HDD bay or some other structure won't allow a full length card. Some minis are lower power and still others you can find OCd.
 
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Low profile and taking up 2 slots is different. There are plenty of low profile single slot cards, just not for gaming.
 
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He said low profile (LP), not single slot. There was an LP 750TI, I don't remember if it was single or double slot. If you need single slot and LP you are right, those are going to be older cards. I think the best/most recent card I saw in that case was a GT730. AMD cards seemed to be even older 5xxx or 7750.
 
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