Single-Slot GeForce RTX 4060 Ti With Blower Emerges

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(Image credit: @Zed_Wang/Twitter)

Single-slot graphics cards are rare today. In fact, even low-end offerings like Intel's Arc A310 or AMD's Radeon RX 6400 tend to use dual-slot cooling systems. Single-slot graphics cards for gaming almost do not exist, but it looks like Colorful wants to change this and has developed a single-slot GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which is one of the best graphics cards around. 

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB blower graphics card (discovered by @Zed_Wang) is powered by Nvidia's AD106 graphics processor with 4352 CUDA cores presumably running at Nvidia's recommended clocks of up to 2540 MHz. The board measures 267 mm x 107 mm x 20 mm and can be housed in almost any chassis that has an eight-pin auxiliary PCIe power connector. 

(Image credit: @Zed_Wang/Twitter)

Another important aspect about this add-in-board (AIB) is that it is possible to install many of such graphics cards into one system, which is important for applications like video walls that use more than one monitors. Speaking of monitors, it is necessary to note that the single-slot GeForce RTX 4060 Ti has four display outputs: three DisplayPorts and one HDMI connector. In addition, multiple single-slot GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB could be used for FP16 or FP32 compute too.

Meanwhile, Nvidia does not really endorse consumer-grade graphics cards with blowers from its AIB partners as they compete against its own professional-grade cards that are sold at a huge premium. As a result, it is unclear whether the company will actually let Colorful, one of its major partners to release its GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB blower product commercially.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • SethNW
    It isn't high TDP card, so it shouldn't need too much in terms of cooling. Though for blower it really depends on design, they can get pretty loud. But occasionally you could find one that surprised in how it wasn't loud. Still, while RTX4000 definitely could have smaller coolers in every tier than they gave, I would still pass on blower.
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  • Darkeasterbunny
    I don't really understand how you can call a mid-range cart which most serious reviews calle dead on arrival or advised strongly against buying unless you want nvidia tech, one of the best graphics card around.
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  • qwertymac93
    Darkeasterbunny said:
    I don't really understand how you can call a mid-range cart which most serious reviews calle dead on arrival or advised strongly against buying unless you want nvidia tech, one of the best graphics card around.
    It's very easy when you're told to copy&paste the link on literally every article that mentions a graphics card.
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  • SyCoREAPER
    I hope for the leakers sake that middle barcode isn't anything identifiable. They left the entire bottom portion uncensored
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  • SSGBryan
    Darkeasterbunny said:
    I don't really understand how you can call a mid-range cart which most serious reviews calle dead on arrival or advised strongly against buying unless you want nvidia tech, one of the best graphics card around.
    It may not be all that good for gaming, but I dabble in 3d art (Poser & Stable Diffusion) and I would love one of these.
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  • Order 66
    I prefer my GPUs to be somewhat quiet, and usually blower style coolers are not quiet.
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  • purpleduggy
    why no built in thunderbolt?
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  • Kamen Rider Blade
    It should've used Mini-DP & Mini-HDMI ports to allow for a larger exhaust port.
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  • Order 66
    Kamen Rider Blade said:
    It should've used Mini-DP & Mini-HDMI ports to allow for a larger exhaust port.
    NO! People hate mini DisplayPort as long as said device using mini displayport doesn't come with an adapter.
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  • Kamen Rider Blade
    Order 66 said:
    NO! People hate mini DisplayPort as long as said device using mini displayport doesn't come with an adapter.
    You just solved your own problem, include a working adapter inside the package.
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