World's Fastest SFF Graphics Card Hits Retail

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Nvidia's RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is now available

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Nvidia has started sales of its tiny RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation graphics card that promises GeForce RTX 3070-like performance at 70W of power and will fit into virtually all desktop PCs. The low-profile, dual-wide board is not cheap — it costs more than the RTX 4080, for example, as it's aimed at professional users — but nothing is stopping you from installing it on a regular gaming computer.

PNY's Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation graphics card is available now for $1,444 from ShopBLT, a retailer known for landing hardware ahead of its rivals. This is why the board is being sold at a price that is higher compared to its official MSRP of $1,250. Keep in mind that the board is equipped with four Mini-DisplayPort connectors, so you'll also need to add the price of an mDP-DP or mDP-HDMI adapter to the cost of this miniature solution.

The Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation board features the company's AD104 GPU with 6,144 active CUDA cores out of a total of 7,680, as well as 20GB of GDDR6 ECC memory connected to the GPU through a 160-bit interface. The GPU has a a capped boost frequency of approximately 1560 MHz to reduce overall board power consumption and is rated for just 70W of power, which means it can be installed into almost any desktop computer, even those without an auxiliary PCIe power connector.

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Nvidia RTX 40-Series Specifications
Row 0 - Cell 0 GPU FP32 CUDA Cores FP32 TFLOPS INT8 TFLOPS Memory Configuration TBP MSRP
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti AD104 7680 40 TFLOPS 160/320 TFLOPS 12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X 285W $799
GeForce RTX 4070 AD104 5888 29 TFLOPS 116/233 12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X 200W $599
RTX 4000 Ada Generation AD104 6144 19.2 TFLOPS 153/307 TFLOPS 20GB 160-bit 16 GT/s GDDR6 ECC 70W $1,250
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GA102 10,752 40 TFLOPS 160/320 TFLOPS 24GB 384-bit 20 GT/s GDDR6X 450W $1,999
GeForce RTX 3070 GA104 5888 20.31 TFLOPS 81/160 TFLOPS 8GB 256-bit 14 GT/s GDDR6 220W $499
Anton Shilov
Anton Shilov
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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.

12 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Order 66
    If this was $300 dollars as opposed to $1250+ I might consider it as my PC only has 1 6-pin PCIe connector but at $1250+ I could build an entirely new PC for that price.
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  • bigdragon
    I really like this. It's a shame gamer GPUs aren't made like this. Not everyone wants a triple fan, 4 slot, over-designed, logo-covered, energy-gulping, limited VRAM, RGB GPU designed to fit in an eATX case.

    Low power consumption, lots of CUDA cores, and compact size are all good attributes. This is also one of the rare examples of Nvidia providing sufficient VRAM. Shame that they've set the price at a consumer-hostile level. Corporations and governments will probably snap these things up without much hesitation. I hope to see more products like this. Half-height, dual-slot cards can fit in some very compact mATX and mini-ITX builds.
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  • LuxZg
    This just shows what's possible when you want to. But it's still terrible card for SFF gaming. It has too much RAM, not that I'd complain, but that increases power consumption, size of board, and price, while benefits would be zero in gaming. This card with say 12GB RAM, shorter board, WAY smaller cooler, and a 300$ price would be a great SFF card. As is, it's a gimmick for weird pros that have money but don't have space for a bigger PC, which would be funny
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  • Firestone
    LuxZg said:
    As is, it's a gimmick for weird pros that have money but don't have space for a bigger PC, which would be funny
    Lol that would be me, it's what you get when you live in small apartment settings.

    I'm pretty excited for this card even though it's still not enough VRAM. But the prospect of sub-mITX sized workstations capable of AI and ML is pretty cool. Combine this with a Ryzen 7950X and a set of the new 2x48GB DDR5 and you could have a really fun tiny system.
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  • Wickedcruel
    My company has bought a number of these last gen Small Form Factor RTX A2000 6GB, 70 watt, cards. They've been great for all the SFF Dell PC's we've bought over the years, but need them to do more now. When a 4 year old SFF Dell PC has an i9-9900k, 64GB, 2TB M.2, but an AMD RX550, we're expecting we can get another 3-5 years of life out of the PC by upgrading it with a RTX A2000 card. Up until today, it's been the fastest card you can buy at 70W or less. These A2000 cards all came with (4) Mini DisplayPort to Displayport connectors, (I have a box full of them) so the article is probably wrong in assuming you'll have to buy them. I bet (4) of them come in the box with every new card in the next generation too.
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  • renz496
    bigdragon said:
    I really like this. It's a shame gamer GPUs aren't made like this. Not everyone wants a triple fan, 4 slot, over-designed, logo-covered, energy-gulping, limited VRAM, RGB GPU designed to fit in an eATX case.

    Low power consumption, lots of CUDA cores, and compact size are all good attributes. This is also one of the rare examples of Nvidia providing sufficient VRAM. Shame that they've set the price at a consumer-hostile level. Corporations and governments will probably snap these things up without much hesitation. I hope to see more products like this. Half-height, dual-slot cards can fit in some very compact mATX and mini-ITX builds.
    nah gaming GPU need bigger power so those power supply maker can get more sales. well joke aside i'm interested this one being tested in games like A2000 before.
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  • sickbrains
    How does this compare to the regular ampere RTX A4000? I think this has less bandwidth but way better tensor core performance. Still really impressive for 70 watts tho!
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  • mo_osk
    LuxZg said:
    As is, it's a gimmick for weird pros that have money but don't have space for a bigger PC, which would be funny

    The simpler, more depressing, reason for this card to exist at this price is that sometimes an SFF GPU is the only way out of procurement hell. When you can throw whatever money at an "accessory" but you're stuck with <Mod Edit> unbalanced configuration for the desktops this is an easy way out the trouble that can be buying a specific configuration.
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  • RodroX
    What a wonderfull piece of garbage. RTX 3070 like - performance (still to be check/seen), at a higher price tag than the RTX 4080 ..... really nvidia?

    What other great idea will the gr$$n team have to rob the buyers? some of them really loyal ones.

    GPU industry/market its nuts. One can understand, at some level, that makers and AIBs want to keep making as much moeny as when the mining boom was a thing, but thats not the case anymore.

    Sadly worldwide economy still a mess and some people barely gets to he end of the month. So this prices are imposible to a whole lot of people.
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  • Rakanyshu
    RodroX said:
    What a wonderfull piece of garbage. RTX 3070 like - performance (still to be check/seen), at a higher price tag than the RTX 4080 ..... really nvidia?

    What other great idea will the gr$$n team have to rob the buyers? some of them really loyal ones.

    GPU industry/market its nuts. One can understand, at some level, that makers and AIBs want to keep making as much moeny as when the mining boom was a thing, but thats not the case anymore.

    Sadly worldwide economy still a mess and some people barely gets to he end of the month. So this prices are imposible to a whole lot of people.
    well its a workstation card thwy have always been expensive and not suitable for consumer or gamers...
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