Nvidia's Tiny New RTX A400 - Can It Game?

[@jake20479]

Not editing out the camera drop... Respect.

[@Hadrhune0]

the usual calm commentary on top of that makes it hilarious

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha gotta embrace our mistakes

[@chinesepopsongs00]

@@RandomGaminginHDare you sure that you are not related to Linus Sebastian the master of dropping things?

[@Jomenaa]

I really liked how he just kept on going without commenting on it xD

[@adriantjuuh]

@@RandomGaminginHD watching to many Linus Drop Tips ? LOL

[@MrDilldock]

'You can have a great time in CS2' Proceeds to get slaughtered.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😂

[@camotech1314]

He's always said that he's bad at that game 🤣

[@AffectionateLocomotive]

The he says u can, not will.😊😊

[@danimayb]

Is it even possible to have a great time in CS? The game is a pure sweat box lol

[@Splarkszter]

PLAY DEADLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!

[@solarisdeexplosive1805]

honestly a good repersentation for what an "RT 3030" GPU would have been.

[@LoganE01]

Honestly I'd like to have a (35watt) SFF-LP 4040

[@christophermullins7163]

Rhe 3050 6gb should have been a 3030. This is a 3010

[@LoganE01]

@@manitoba-op4jx yea more than likely... Probably won't ever see the AMD RX 7400 or 8400 either.... I unironically run a rx 6300 and 6400 sometimes.....

[@ffwast]

Can't even afford the X

[@LoganE01]

@@PREDATEURLT yeah probably could be but I just need the GPU card

[@FilthEffect]

I'm obsessed with tiny graphics cards at the mo. I can't wait to see how much they progess over the next few years.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah same 😁

[@philspam2087]

I'll bet they disappear in the next 10-20 years. APUs are shredding right now and will do so even more in the future

[@AndrewTSq]

@@philspam2087 no, they will not. APU's have been around for 20years, and still we have these small GPU's for a reason.

[@QWERTYCommander]

​@@philspam2087APU's are bottlenecked by DDR RAM latency, I can see the "office PC display adapter" tier disappearing because of them but nothing higher because they're constrained by physics.

[@Ligmaballin]

I'm the opposite, i love giant cards with 3 fans, but i find them funny as more they age. I remmember having a massive GTX 960 2gb card, it was like a brick and heavy like one too, but somehow my tiny RTX 2060 demolishes it lol, now im back to step one with a giant RTX 2080 S

[@mbe102]

Single Slot Cards

[@quantum5661]

not gone just yet, yeston will sell you a single slot low profile 3050 6gb

[@stevethepocket]

@@quantum5661 Whoa, did this just come out? The only link I was able to find was a post on PCPartPicker's forum from _yesterday._

[@Splarkszter]

I don't My laptop iGPU runs better than this card.

[@LukiRudaka]

Me with my single slot rtx 2060 equivilent (Radeon Pro W5500, a single slot RX 5500)

[@Bolt451]

Apparently a single slot 4060 is coming

[@XeonProductions]

My enthusiasm died as soon as you said 64-bit bus width.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha yep that got me too

[@WayStedYou]

you need another 0 on the name to get any decent performance but the price goes up a lot

[@lharsay]

And it has like 30% of the cores enabled on the die compared to the 3050Ti 4GB.

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

But,but its 64!

[@axescar]

There is something between 3050 6 and 8GB - RTX A1000, that have 3056 GPU but 128 bit bus width with 8GB RAM

[@wtjonny]

Man I used to watch you all the time. Started getting back into pcs and you popped up in my recommended let’s go🔥🔥🔥

[@RandomGaminginHD]

welcome back!

[@balaam_7087]

I love the physical design of the card. It looks really cool. I prefer these minimalist styled ones, and not the more ‘out there’ designs with vents and slashes and swoops and gouges and curves and flairs. Just give me a small sleek looking aesthetic.

[@usr01]

Founders Editions my brother in Christ. Looks better than every other card and no gamer aesthetics.

[@ThylineTheGay]

@@usr01 ehh, no. it's still a gamer aesthetic, just a different type

[@MangoPango1973]

No RGB = At leadt 20% lower framerate.

[@usr01]

@@ThylineTheGay I wouldn’t consider minimalism “gamer”.

[@ThylineTheGay]

@@usr01 agree to disagree, particularly on calling the founders 'minimalist'

[@xnyte]

Linus would be proud of that drop.

[@CambridgePunk]

Time for a single slot showdown. A400, RX6400 etc. etc. etc. I love these little cards ❤

[@davymcmenamin]

T400, t600, t1000 also, there's an 8gb t1000 now

[@randomchannel9331]

​​@@davymcmenaminAlso A1000

[@goldy_on_pc930]

2:45 Shakespearean writing

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😁

[@goldy_on_pc930]

@@RandomGaminginHD 😄😄😄

[@joyceolamiju9173]

😅​@@RandomGaminginHD

[@btarg1]

We need more single slot LP cards!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

For sure!

[@brandonchappell1535]

I got a sparkle A310 single slot recently which probably lands somewhere close to this, ive only used it on plex though, its a lil cutey

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Problem is that given the amount of Watts the good GPUs need to use, and the amount of heat they release, single slot cards are almost a forgotten dream, nowadays...

[@Drakey_Fenix]

I miss the blower style coolers that used to come on most graphics cards in the past. It was really good cooling solution for small ITX builds.

[@ffwast]

They still exist if you look just a little harder.

[@zextakamania2086]

Yeah I have an SFF case with no dedicated PSU intake and all the heat the GPU dumps inside the case is a problem for it (not even talking about CPU etc). Some smaller PSUs with extra heat can sound louder and more unpleasant than a GPU blower, which takes care of the heat problem. I previously had a blower Vega and it wasn’t even loud operating at 160-180W with UV.

[@arch1107]

do you miss the horrible noise too?

[@ffwast]

@@PREDATEURLT Sounds like a custom blower shroud over a regular heatsink (if the fins run lengthwise,which some manufacturers do) would work fine.

[@ffwast]

@@PREDATEURLT 3d printing isn't advanced modding and the cards are already humongous.

[@Darkerviper]

I love watching videos like this showing off what the performance is like in games but it would be nice to see black mesa being thrown in randomly to see how it does with cards like this.

[@gaunterodimm3606]

I love the dropped camera shot that was left in. Not saying you should do it again intentionally Steve but leaving in was a nice touch and made me smile.

[@Dr.RojoMcDelly]

I always come here for the “wivoutfurvahadew”

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😂 that got me

[@Dr.RojoMcDelly]

@@RandomGaminginHDalways nice to have a good laugh😂 keep up the great content man.

[@dovahkiin2108]

I'm here for the "jew'o core" and the "jew'al channel o' ram"

[@shaneeslick]

G'day @Dr.RojoMcDelly, Plus the "Hello everyone & welcome to another video" which I hear in my head even if Google is muted 😁

[@Dr.RojoMcDelly]

@@shaneeslickmusic to our ears 🙏🏼

[@ZackSNetwork]

This GPU is half the performance of the rumored Switch 2 GPU. Which is said to have 1536 Cuda Cores and a 128bit bus with 12gbs of LPDDR5x memory.

[@HardWhereHero]

Yuck.

[@niebuhr6197]

But clocks much higher

[@jjlambonscloudyproductions]

You sir are the Sean Bean of counter Strike 2 lol. Great video

[@dabattlefield3101]

haha you are so good as cs2 and at 7:27 were you trying to go under that trucK? amazing bro :D

[@deagt3388]

Every bloody card can game on your channel... ;-)

[@arch1107]

you say that like it was a bad thing, you must miss those old pci cards that barely could draw a excell window

[@chistinelane]

Welcome to the future! Where even the worst is okay!

[@chistinelane]

​@@arch1107god, remember when you needed a pc card just to play am mpeg? Graphics cards have come so far

[@Katechon1349]

I think the card deserves some credit for dishing out 30-40 FPS in the city of Baldurs Gate, that part makes even my 4070 ti beg for mercy

[@FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaOfficial]

Nvidia doesn't deserve any good will for this card guys. Even though the performance is interesting for the form factor keep in mind its slower, more expensive, higher power draw, and just generally worse in every way compared to cards like the RX 6400 4GB and even the Arc a380 6GB is likely to be a better choice than that.

[@GewelReal]

at 1080p with DLSS that's like 720p

[@Katechon1349]

@@FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaOfficial I didn't say it was good, I said that I expected much worse performance in Act 3 of Baldur's Gate

[@OhSoTiredMan]

I always undervolt my gpu and cpu.

[@07xGH0ST]

Yeah I was actually genuinely impressed at some of these benchmarks! Literally like 1st gen ps4 performance, which is crazy for such a little low end card..

[@Brainrape_memes]

Your channel's community is so nice bro u deserve it

[@apersonontheinternet8354]

It's not playing AAA games maxed out at a consistent 60fps, but like, damn. It's really good for how tiny it is. Gives me flashbacks to benchmark videos of tiny 1050's and 1050 ti's. The lil A400 is a damn little beast

[@PT63]

There are also other cards available at same size and power consumption of 50 Watts, but even more powerful (and expensive, of course). These are the RTX A1000 and the RTX 2000E ada, the card with more modern architecture. I'm also very impressed by the performance of the RTX A400, but personally I would go with the RTX 2000E ada.

[@MrElliot1210]

Please put Doom Eternal in the benchmarks! Yes, I know the game runs on anything, but that's why it's fun to run it on super low end hardware. It's considered a "triple A game from 2020" but certainly runs better than what that label entails.

[@stevethepocket]

I remember watching one benchmark test from a few years ago where 2016's _Doom_ somehow managed to run the worst of every game they tested. You never know sometimes. Whatever card it was must have had atrocious Vulkan support, which is good to know if you're thinking of using it with Linux.

[@vitaminalm]

I feel like this would be a great transcoder for Plex

[@tim3172]

They are. NVENC produces near-CPU transcode quality and workstation cards are generally unlocked in terms of number of streams. Most GeForce cards (barring a risky firmware unlock) only allow for 2 streams per GPU. My T600 chews through 8 4K streams at once... which was a fun experiment. I couldn't figure out what was going wrong... um... duh, you're streaming from a hard drive. Moving it to SSD works fine. They estimate 30 1080P streams for the T600. Nothing's been published for this, but it should at least be that powerful. Plus, there have been improvements to NVENC itself. It is rather baffling that they didn't use an AV1 encode-capable version in this, though. Like, I get that it's a cut down Ampere card, but come on.

[@goddessofwar4955]

This is the correct use. Between this or something like an A380, I've had incredible luck with these kind of cards for Plex/JellyFin.

[@LilShaqi]

I love you videos, i watch them while i eat and you have a nice voice

[@lukesfilmltd]

really wish you ran unreal engine editor tests when looking at these cards. genuinely wouldnt be hard to do and would be so helpful to developers esp indie ones getting into the space

[@Zerbey]

I've amassed a bit of a collection of Quadro cards over the years, they often pop up on auction sites for rock bottom prices as businesses upgrade. If you get a good deal on one, it will work as a budget gaming card. The PC I'm typing on now has a P2000 in it, which is somewhere in between a 1050 and 1060 in terms of performance. It's my living room PC, so mostly just used for watching movies on, however when my younger relatives come over they use it for things like Minecraft and Roblox and it handles all of that with no issues at all.

[@Z2KRetroGaming]

The P2000 is a cool card for something like an old Optiplex, where you get really decent performance without added power. But I got one in a refurb Dell workstation and I was able to flip it for a faster 1660 TI and have some change left in my pocket...they're just not interesting at the price point they tend to be at.

[@tylerfreal6472]

whats something common that runs gta5 well ? looking to build something for my cousin to play fivem

[@AlexHusTech]

I have a P2000, not bad for low 1080P gaming.

[@Z2KRetroGaming]

@@tylerfreal6472 does the build you're doing have a PSU connector or two to power the graphics card? Something like the GTX 970 will handle it well and isn't that expensive, and the RX 580 will be even better.

[@misham6547]

It’s great for transcoding also

[@Incognito-gh5qi]

For a 4gb with such a SMALL Bus Width I am actually impressed. Look at the bus width in gpu-z that is so small.

[@nicksterba]

Aaaand he delivers ;) great vid

[@TyguyArchives]

i always wanted a gpu with gamecube controller ports in the back! and Nvidia delivered !

[@gameurai5701]

Around 10 years ago, AMD released the Fury Nano, which was maybe 2-3% slower than the Fury, AMD's 2nd strongest card at the time, so it was a SFF GTX 980 competitor with a max power consumption of 200 watts. It actually had binned Fury X chips, but because of it's SFF it ran into TDP limits obviously. It was actually smaller than the card you've shown here because it was really short too. Today, a SFF RTX 4080 or 7900XTX is completely unthinkable.

[@excess.subiefl0w]

That card mined me a good bag of ethereum

[@huzudra]

Maybe the A1000 next, same core but less gimped and 8GB VRAM. An 8GB 3050 more or less.

[@MatthewJaws]

ty for reminding me about new nvidia drivers

[@hyperixz]

I am kind of surprised how power efficient this card is. Most cards that run at such TDP wouldn't even run these games.

[@userunknown1030]

yeah it held it own but think the price is what makes not worth it in the end.

[@giu4295]

They released it just to flex said efficiency i guess

[@nsreturn1365]

Enter steam deck, running these or higher settings at 10 watts gpu and same or more fps. Yeah they are def not flexing shit here, it does it's job thats all ​@@giu4295

[@Osaka2407]

Did it really impress? I believe Radeon 780M can match it while using less and beat at the same power, 880M should beat it at basically any power setting and 890M would just walk all over it, all while consuming less. And Ampere is the uArch that generally scales better with lower power than Ada. So IMO not really impressive as a gaming card. For the workstation, the VRAM makes it not worth it for anything business related either, let alone truly professional. It's a bad card but at least not a cheap one - nVidia on release, probably :D

[@Scornfull]

@@Osaka2407 It's impressive considering that it wasn't designed to do anything outside of workstation tasks

[@SupremeMasterr]

Bro these garden shots scae me, bees might be everywhere.

[@Ford.Prefect]

Bees are calm and gentle creatures

[@junethefirst]

Just like my Quadro K620 is a slower, single-slot, workstation-oriented GTX 950, this A400 is a slower, single-slot, workstation-oriented RTX 3050. They just dropped the Quadro brand for the workstation lineup after Turing and are named RTX A(mpere/da) now. Pretty sure the next gen will be RTX B(lackwell).

[@LeftJoystick]

Any workstation that is okay with a sub-75W, PCIe-only-powered card doesn't need a real GPU.

[@Z2KRetroGaming]

It's really the A1000 which is the slower single slot 3050 - the A400 is more like a slower single slot version of the nonexistent 3030.

[@tim3172]

@@LeftJoystick I are a denthead who only talks in absolutes and my name is tiesto.

[@Jakobian-m9i]

Video starts at 0:01 btw 😉

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😁

[@hyperixz]

thank you, saved me a WHOLE second of time! 😅

[@n1xtertrixter241]

GET OUT

[@NkosanaMakhubele]

​@@n1xtertrixter241 GET IN

[@cooncrib00]

I’ll be glad when this little trend gets old and people stop doing it

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

1:38 Looks like you tested it out in an x8 slot instead of x16, which probably didn't help. How does it compare to RX 6400? It's about the same price and the same number of shaders overall, but the other specs look weaker.

[@bligh1156]

This thing would have enough bandwidth to saturate 8 lanes, even if that's the case.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@bligh1156 oh yeah, I wasn't considering that. But in GPU-Z it said the card was 16 lanes. So is my GTX 1050, and it's a little tiny thing like this card.

[@organicinsanity2534]

The bigger brother to this (a2000 6gb) blows the rx 6400 out of the water. I was choosing between that one and the 6400 and had to go with the a2000 because of the larger lane size and with being on an older motherboard that only supported pci gen 3. It was a very usable card but they are harder to find for the 250 that I bought mine for from a mining company dumping stock.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@organicinsanity2534 according to TechPowerUp the A2000 6GB is about 50% faster than the RX 6400. I don't know if that qualifies as "blowing it out of the water" but it's significantly faster, yes. But it's about 20% slower than the 3050 8GB, maybe comparable to the 3050 6GB and for quite a bit more money, so I can't recommend it over that. Honestly the 3050 6GB is probably the best dual-slot low profile card for older SFF systems right now, on par with a GTX 1060 6GB for straight rasterization, but with Ampere so RT is possible (but not really usable, being a low-end card). There's also the RTX 4060LP but that card is a bit pricey and hard to justify unless your system is on the newer side (like 10th gen or Zen 3 and newer).

[@whippy89]

You're probably aware by now, but just incase, Once Human recently had a big update that added DX12 support and DLSS (I noticed your footage was on DX11, but I assume it was recorded a while back). On release it had some stuttering and high CPU usage issues, which now seem to be ironed out when using DX12 :).

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Ah ok thanks I wasn’t aware of that :)

[@skinwalker69420]

This thing would be an excellent encoding/decoding card I bet. If I remember correctly this should still have the same hardware NVEnc chips as a 4090, and be able to encode and decode the same as one too. If you're running a particularly high traffic Jellyfin server this would probably be the go-to card for you.

[@ricksgaming7298]

so ive looked into these cards a bit before any videos came out about it and these a specialty cards like you said. they are working on graphic cards that wont use up so much power while still performing as well as its counterpart. Although that tech isint here yet these are more proof of concepts then anything. i would like to see them in little mini computers like the droid tv boxes and laptops.

[@07xGH0ST]

Wtf?? These aren't actually bad frames for such a low end 50w card lmao. Was actually impressed with baldurs gate, elden ring, fh5, etc. This is basically like a little ps4 in performance! Thanks for the video m8!

[@krissythecatboi]

I think one of the closest comparisons to this card would be the Intel Arc A310: similar form factor, similar power usage, similar performance. Now, some benchmarks put the Arc ahead in raw power, but XeSS is less supported than DLSS and it also doesn't have CUDA, but at the same time should be a bit cheaper when in stock (though some games have driver issues still). These GPUs feel like somethign that you could put in a budget desktop that's not particularly meant for gaming, maybe a server in a homelab, or maybe as a second GPU to delegate tasks to (whether that's using it for a host OS when you want to use another GPU for VM passthrough, or if you want to record/stream and have the smaller GPU handle encoding).

[@someonesomewhere9321]

I'd love to see No Man's Sky added to the benchmarks every now and then. It recently received a big update and it's now pretty intensive on both the CPU and GPU as well as the amount of VRAM it requires.

[@joeykeilholz925]

The whole 4000 series has such insanely low bus widths

[@Detano2]

I've been watching your channel for years and have not subscribed, corrected that error.

[@trip_t2122]

Please could you also review the RTX A1000?

[@PiotrBarcz]

I wonder how well this card would be suited to running Topaz Video Enhance AI? It's cheap, though I wonder if I could get better rendering times for the same price from a different Nvidia card.

[@Spoonuk666]

Most people are interested in this card because of AV1 decoding or game streaming from GeForce Now where AV1 plays a massive role as well as VRR (variable refresh rate) being the highlights :)

[@rikvanmaurik]

Great Little OBS card *AV1 encoder *RTX Broadcast *RTX Voice

[@johnbilodeau6296]

Ampere generation card doesn't have AV1 encoder, only AV1 decoder

[@ArakiSatoshi]

You asked if there are any games to request, can I offer you to start testing RimWorld for CPUs? Some tech KZbinrs use it, it's a very good single-thread CPU benchmark, the difference really shows between CPUs of different generations. Just got to stay consistent with it, like the same save with 10 pawns in every test.

[@vng]

RTX A1000 next!

[@insid3493]

The camera drop made me smile

[@GuyManley]

Cool. I'm most impressed by how scalable Cyberpunk became. It like not even a difficult to run game anymore unless you turn on full path tracing and ray reconstruction. Used to be an unfinished mess that you 3090 Ti's could run.

[@morzemus1805]

"I'm a simple man. I see a graphics card, I must see whether it can game."

[@lordgong4980]

if i remember right we will be getting a 7400 and 7300 soon you should take a look at those

[@imSkrap]

you know as a kid i was baffled how small gpu's were and still put out so much power but now im baffled at how gigantic gpu's are that they almost need an entire case just for itself... i imagined them staying at the size of the 10 series

[@tovarischshashlikov]

Will you review the RTX A1000 in the future? It certainly has its place as a great option for an SFF build, although the price is pretty steep, I'm sure with time it'll get a decent price in the used market like the A2000 Nobody has done a review about the A1000 yet (and you're the only one who's done so for the A400) and it'd be really interesting to see how it performs on its own and against something similar to it like a 3050 8GB (or 6GB)

[@JW86SH]

I'd love to see emulators thoroughly tested on cards like this. It's the kind of gaming I'd want something like this for. Arma 3 is another one. I wouldn't want it for actually playing online. I'd want it for the ed3n editor. Building missions without heating up my house would be ideal during the summer months.

[@WurlyBurger]

I sold my mas 1660 ti. What would the best card to replace it with on a budget?

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

With the announcement of DLSS 4, upscaling from 720p might become viable for a GPU like this. If you're on a ultra budget and want to play less intensive games, this GPU seriously might be for you.

[@TheOneDanTek]

can we add beamng west coast usa to benchmark run? itd be pretty cool. settings id use: graphics settings are your choice 4 ai cars west coast usa map default car that spawns route to take: open map (m for keyboard/y for controller) and set route to the sea. then set route to lighthouse on island. then set route to toll booth on highway aka the highway location in the map spawn presets. this is probably the most demanding route you can do in that game, and its quite popular now so. itd funny tryna play this toute at 4k ultra on the 4080 super, as even 4090 struggles.

[@piszczello]

So what is the intended target audience for this card? What workstation would possibly want something so slow?

[@AlpineTheHusky]

The A series of cards has always been expensive BUT used by consumers for tiny cases. They are binned INASANELY well

[@TheGameBench]

Hmm... I wonder where this falls in with other low profile GPU's. Seems the P1000 might cost less and perform better. Granted, there are two versions of the P1000 and they perform quite differently and there's no easy way to know which one you're getting.

[@drewnewby]

It's slightly faster than the P1000, but $50 would be generous for either.

[@TheGameBench]

@@drewnewby Based on....? I can't find anything reliable that really gives an idea of relative gaming performance outside of the TechPowerUp GPU database and it puts the A400 as 26% slower. But if you've got another source, I'd love to see that info. However, I don't agree that $50 is generous for either. Granted, from a gaming perspective I get that sentiment, but these aren't gaming cards. They're meant for computational workloads. Seeing as people are still buying the P1000 for around $100 says that it's worth that, for whatever they're doing.

[@drewnewby]

The A400 is roughly 10% faster than the P1000. Not sure what you're looking at, but even techpowerup has it at 5% faster. No one I know buys P1000 cards for $100. That's not sentiment, I've been in PC repair for over 30 years. If you're getting that much for them when flipping off lease kit, more power to you.

[@TheGameBench]

@@drewnewby You must be looking at the lower cuda count model with only 512. It would be a touch slower than the A400 according to TechPowerUp. However, the 640 cuda core count model with 640 is on par with the 1630 according to TechPowerUp, which is about 26% faster than the A400. As to the value, I'm not selling them and I'm not flipping them in systems. For gaming the A6400 is the better buy at $100. They're selling for that on the open market on eBay. I don't know why people are paying that much, but I assume it's not for gaming and they're buying them because they're worth $100 in some professional workload they're doing.

[@legostarwarsrulez]

My medical offices use these a400 cards in machines for reading echocardiograms, stress tests, and other medical software that require a bit more GPU grunt than integrated graphics.

[@stargeezer8427]

I really wish they would quit with the mini-display ports though....

[@shepardvasnormandy]

Most importantly, how does it compare to 1050Ti and 1650?

[@drewnewby]

Half a GTX 1650.

[@fsisrael9224]

This is basically a 1050ti. All specs are identical

[@drewnewby]

@fsisrael9224 Not even close, and none of the specs are identical, other than core count? Different dies from different architectures, and the A400 has half the TMUs, ROPs, and bandwidth.

[@gbraadnl]

Would wonder if this would be a good option when compared to the external OneGPU or GPD that use an AMD card. Having something on a Thunderbolt 4 connection like this might be acceptable and handy for a Thinkpad for external displays or even an LLM. Would know how this card overall compares when considering a Legion Go or even Ally X...

[@BigCatsBite]

Kind of want this card as a low-end test for the game I'm working on (software raytracing is enabled 100% of the time lol).

[@Alovon]

TBF would've liked to see if/what it'd take to get stuff like Lumen/Nanite in Fortnite running (what res/dlss setup?) Low-end stuff like this is interesting. Especially as this is sort of half the leaked GPU spec of the Switch 2 (Switch 2's GPU being 12SMs versus the 6 here). Mind you Switch 2 (via production shipment leaks), will have 12GB of RAM versus the 4 for this card. But genuinely curious considering the closest desktop card is the 3050-6GB and even then it has a bit more SMs than the Switch 2's GPU.

[@jurpo6]

Yeah but we want to know how it compares to the rx6400 and a310. It’s a single slot sff card.

[@Kekeripo]

I believe there is a RTX 2000E version with this exact cooler. Bit faster.

[@AtlassGaming]

I've gamed on the Quadro K620, a 2014 ancestor of this card. Wonder if they'll do an A620.

[@CyberdriveAutomotive]

Would this run Nvidia Broadcast? It generally requires a 2 series rtx or higher.. If this does, it would be a really good option for content creators who want to have a really clean microphone.

[@MrSmitheroons]

I'd say it can game. Not at heavy settings, and maybe not a sensible purchase for gaming, but still stronger than a lot of APUs. If only there were actual serious value cards at this price point intended for gaming, as you mentioned. Oh well. Thanks for the video!

[@beardedretroguy6428]

I’d be interested to know how a card like this handles Plex transcoding for my home server.

[@vijayakumarikumar3920]

I have a doubt is it better than rx 6400 single slot low profile or worse. And when using with a old computer which will perform better because rx 6400 is pcie x4 and rtx a400 is pcie x8. So if we are using it with a pcie 2.0 then which has higher performance?? Please tell if you know about this

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I will do some comparisons :)

[@vijayakumarikumar3920]

@@RandomGaminginHD thanks

[@AlexTwy_]

Nice video!

[@IAmStillNotMatthew]

BG3 running at an average of 30FPS at 1080p with low settings is commendable for something smaller than the 512MB ATI card I used to play BF3 on low in 900p at ~25FPS, ~15FPS average on open maps.

[@tfgward7889]

Could you compare this with a RX 6400 single slot LP variant please? Would be interesting which one is the better option for a SFF PC build.

[@TheSpotify95]

Sure, this GPU isn't a powerhouse, but something I do like about it is the low profile adapter option, the small amount of space the card takes, and the lack of a PSU requirement. So this thing would be ideal for dropping into small form factor PCs to increase performance over whatever iGPU it has, though hopefully said PC is PCIe 4.0!

[@baoquoc3710]

any prebuilt with i5 11400 is all good and well

[@Rodger_Phillips]

I have a Dell SSF system, and so low profile cards are a must for me at the moment, and being Dell it means there is no room for cards that use two slot bays, so when i saw this card here I had to watch, at this point I will stick with my GT1030 4GB mostly due to money. Doing a side by side on the stats the RTX 400 clearly has advantages, and if I do see one cheap I would try it, but at 150 quid well, it will be a lot more than that here in Aus, as they do not stick to the same prices here, more often even after currency conversion and Tax, we end up paying more.

[@GARBO96]

I built my first gaming PC and I fired up Apex and I wondered why I was only getting like 100 FPS even though I spent like 2K to build my machine then I looked at the settings and everything was maxed out. Damn near had a heart attack

[@Rosaslav]

Have you tried to up the power limit to 75W to make full use of PCIe slot power?

[@curlswheatly5393]

Does it do AV1 encoding? A quick google search turned up AV1 decoding, but that's not as interesting as potentially having encoding ability as well.

[@LurkingLarper]

Low power usage GPUs are always super cool. Ever since Steam Deck launched I've been impressed and obsessed by how much gaming you can do with 15w give or take. Too bad the low end is nonexistent these days and the pricing is atrocious as ever. Maybe the next gen will give us a low power usage GPU worth buying.

[@fattomandeibu]

I've made a Batocera(Linux distro that is pre-configured with emulators that is controlled via wireless gamepad) rig for a mate using one of them tiny SSF office machines with an i5. I didn't bother with a GPU 'cause I couldn't find one for a decent price that'd fit the tiny space for the PCIe slot and have enough horse power. This might fit the bill.

[@Jim-hm9ch]

What a cute little card. I'd like to get one in a few more years when it's cheap and put it on my desk.

[@Tetracera.]

so there's a low profile card on par with my gtx 950, i might have to finally upgrade soon.

[@nasko235679]

This would be a great GPU if it had dual encoders and AV1 encode, I can see many use cases, but the way it is spec-d right now I don't see who buys it as anything more than a display adapter.

[@TheHobohobbit]

You should have a look at the ARC A380 low profile. looks like a very budget friendly card for SFF Gaming

[@RANDOMNATION907]

I want to see how well an 8300G will pair-up with an RX 6600 (non-xt). That seems like it would be an efficient combination that would still provide a great deal of fun and enjoyment. You've shown that the i3 12100 plays well with the RX 6600 (I think you've made that video). The 8300G has the AVX512 instruction set, while the 12100 does not. From what I understand that can add 5-10 FPS in specific scenarios. Just what a budget system needs, Plus FSR3 support is a guarantee. Plus the 8300G seems like a great inexpensive way to get onto the AM5 platform (like the 3000G once was for AM4), while the LGA1700 is coming to an end. But I don't know, because nobody is testing the 8300G. It's frustrating.

[@ViewtifulSam]

Does it come with an alternate faceplate? Would seriously consider for a mini itx build

[@azhanheheh]

great for arcade builds, or tv console experience with steam os

[@Al3ksandrOrlov]

Isn't steam OS AMD only?

[@azhanheheh]

@@Al3ksandrOrlov bazzite might work

[@baoquoc3710]

@@Al3ksandrOrlov there's also Wayland as well, mostly supported Nvidia drivers now

[@millar876]

Would probably be a great card for SFF HTPC or low power Plex server, but there’s cheaper cards that will do the same job especially 2nd hand & now that nvidia have removed the restrictions on number of simultaneous nvenc encodes on consumer cards, which used to be software limited if you weren’t on a quadro

[@neoxela00]

Real missed opportunity here IMO in showcasing DLSS Balanced and Performance for all titles, perhaps something to at least show in the future, doesn't take much time and provides info on scaling.

[@TheWarmotor]

Might be a good fit for a SFF PS2/GC emulation build?

[@jackthatmonkey8994]

Okay this is crazy! A NEW nVidea card that is 150 quid that can run the selection you showed? Whaddayamean the budget section of cards is dead?