The NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF is a mid-range workstation GPU and is also the smallest one that is available for purchase. The card is equipped with a AD104 GPU which features 6144 CUDA Cores. It might be a better configuration than the RTX 4070, but it doesn’t surpass the 4070 Ti.
But the new GPU has now been tested by a Japanese reviewer called Jisakuhibi. The GPU ships with 720 MHz base clock and 1560 MHz boost clock, and it features 20GB of GDDR6 memory running at 14 Gbps. This results in a bandwidth of 280 GB/s.
The reviewer tested the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada GPU against various other cards and found out that the card is around 20% faster than RTX 3060 at just 70W TDP. The card is also around 70% faster than the RTX 3050 and it supports full HD/high frame rate and WQHD PC gaming.
This is what the reviewer had to say about the card’s performance:
Pros
- GPU compatible with full HD/high frame rate and WQHD PC gaming
- An average of 20% faster than the RTX 3060
- An average of 70% faster than the RTX 3050 (≒RTX A2000)
- Supports AI double speed interpolation DLSS 3, the latest feature of GeForce RTX 40
- Supports hardware encoding of next-generation codec AV1 with high compression and high image quality
- Unlimited number of simultaneous encoding sessions
- Supports dedicated features for professional GPUs such as NVIDIA Mosaic
- Compact size with total length of 169mm and occupied 2 slots
- Compatible with low profile PCIE bracket
- No need for PCIE auxiliary power with TGP70W
- GPU cooler that can sufficiently cool the TGP70W with a noise level of 35dB or less
Cons
- Video output is Mini DisplayPort only (usually one DP conversion adapter is included)
- Very expensive at 220,000 yen including tax (as of May 2023)”
The RTX 4000 SFF Ada GPU is also not limited to 5 concurrent encoding sessions, just like all RTX workstation GPUs. The only deal breaker for this card is that it’s way too expensive as it has an MSRP of $1,250. Other than that, it’s pretty much an all-rounder workstation GPU with efficient performance and low power consumption.
About Nvidia
NVIDIA Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware, based in Santa Clara, California. They design graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market.
Best known for the “GeForce” lines of GPUs, they are a direct competitor to AMD’s “Radeon” series. NVIDIA has also expanded its offerings with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV and its cloud gaming service GeForce Now.
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