Nvidia and Asus just made the ideal mini PC graphics card

Asus has simply unveiled the Asus GeForce RTX 4060 LP BRK, a brand new low-profile model of the Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU that’s simply half the peak of regular playing cards and makes use of three teeny tiny followers. This could make it a really perfect possibility for these constructing a very compact mini PC however who don’t need to compromise an excessive amount of on GPU energy.

The brand new small type issue Nvidia graphics card is identical RTX 4060 everyone knows and are pretty ambivalent about – it’s not precisely probably the most thrilling by way of efficiency or worth – however as an alternative of the same old full-height (or taller) card with usually a pair of 80-90mm followers, this card is almost half the peak. This in fact makes it best for a mini PC.

The cardboard rises to only 69mm, which compares to over 120mm for the Asus Twin GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6, as an example. What’s extra, whereas Asus hasn’t managed to shrink this graphics card all the way down to being only a single enlargement slot unit, it has stored it to inside two slots. That implies that even in the event you’re operating a mini-ITX or microATX motherboard with very restricted house round it, you need to nonetheless be capable of accommodate this card.

Asus hasn’t but confirmed to us in the event you really get a low-profile enlargement bracket within the field or not. With out one, the cardboard’s low-profile credentials are dented however assuming it does have one, it must be an awesome possibility.

There are a few downsides to the design of this card, although. The primary is that it makes use of a trio of tiny followers to maintain it cool. These will probably need to spin fairly quick, which might make them fairly loud in comparison with typical cooling setups for RTX 4060 playing cards which have two a lot bigger followers.

The opposite consideration is that this card is rated to attract 115W and so requires a six-pin energy cable. Compared, most different low-profile playing cards of this model have a tendency to make use of weak sufficient GPUs that they solely require the 75W of energy that may be delivered straight by your motherboard, negating the necessity for an additional cable and the doubtless cumbersome energy provide wanted to attach the cable.

These issues apart, the RTX 4060 is a decently highly effective graphics card for all method of small type issue PC functions. What’s extra, you get a surprisingly complete array of show outputs for such a small card, with two HDMI 2.1a and two DisplayPort 2.1a ports.

The GPU itself additionally runs at the usual clock speeds and with the identical core counts and VRAM allocation as the traditional card. Meaning you get 3,072 CUDA cores, 96 tensor cores, 32 RT cores, and 8GB VRAM, with the GPU operating at 2490 MHz in OC mode and 2460 MHz in Increase mode. The reminiscence makes use of a 128-bit interface for 17Gbps of bandwidth.

Do you dabble in mini PCs? Would the brand new Asus GeForce RTX 4060 LP BRK suit your wants? We’d love to listen to your ideas over on the PCGamesN Facebook or X pages, or on the CustomPC Facebook group. As for different graphics card suggestions, verify our best graphics card information, or in the event you’d reasonably simply skip straight to having an entire mini PC learn our best mini gaming PC information.