NVIDIA Unveils “SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card” Guidelines, Helping Vendors & Gamers With Compact PC Builds
NVIDIA has unveiled new guidelines under its "SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card" initiative which should usher in a new era of compact PC builds.
NVIDIA's SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards Are Designed For Compact PC Builds, New Guidelines To Help Vendors Select The Best Components For Gaming PCs
A few months back, we exclusively reported that NVIDIA was working on a new ecosystem to empower SFF and compact PC builds. Today, NVIDIA is finally taking the curtains off of its SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards guidelines which will help AIB partners, component manufacturers, and gamers alike who are looking forward to building compact PCs.
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We have learned that NVIDIA is working with its partners which not only include AICs (graphics card makers) but also chassis, PSU, manufacturers, etc, to put together components that are perfect for SFF builds. Why this is so important because SFF builds are generally more constrained when we compare them to traditional builds. There's the matter of space constraint, airflow & the right PSU choice.
So as a part of its guidelines for the SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card ecosystem, NVIDIA has laid out dimensions of 304x155x50mm for a graphics card to be compliant with the new standard. These cards shouldn't exceed 2.5 slots which is the sweet spot for smaller PC builds but most vendors will try to go the dual-slot route.
NVIDIA AIB partners offering these designs include ASUS, GALAX, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, PALIT, PNY & ZOTAC. Furthermore, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Founders Edition cards such as the 4070 & 4070 FE will comply with these guidelines. It looks like the main focus is on the RTX 4080 SUPER & RTX 4070 series cards since they fall in the "Enthusiast" graphics card category. The RTX 4060 series are the more mainstream option.
The graphics cards are just one side of this initiative. The second major part is the chassis and
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