SFF-Ready: Nvidia makes small gaming PCs socially acceptable
Nvidia and numerous partner manufacturers agree on maximum sizes for small gaming-compatible housings and suitable graphics cards.
Selected SFF hardware at Nvidia at the Computex IT trade fair.
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Fans of small gaming PCs should be able to find compatible hardware more easily in the future. To this end, Nvidia is launching the "SFF-Ready" label for housings and GeForce graphics cards. SFF stands for "Small Form Factor" and indicates a maximum size for GPUs that fits into all SFF-Ready housings.
All models from the GeForce RTX 4070 upwards that are a maximum of 304 mm long, 50 mm (2.5 slots) thick and 151 mm high are SFF-ready. Cheaper graphics cards such as the GeForce RTX 4060 do not fall into the "Enthusiast" category for Nvidia and are not considered.
Cases must leave at least 312 mm of space in length for a graphics card – 8 mm clearance so that the GeForce can still be installed and removed. In addition, there must be at least 154.5 mm of clearance to the side panel or, if rotated, to the lid so that there is also room for the power cable.
There is apparently no size restriction. It primarily depends on whether it makes sense for a manufacturer to market a case as small.
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36 graphics cards and 23 cases
It starts with 36 graphics cards from Nvidia itself (Founders Editions), Asus, KFA2, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Most of these are variants of the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Super. There are seven models of the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super from the manufacturers Asus, Inno3D, MSI and Palit.
The GeForce RTX 4080 Super is only represented twice, specifically Asus' Proart and a not yet presented Palit Infinity 3. The GeForce RTX 4080 has been considered discontinued since the presentation of the Super variant and is therefore not included.
The case list includes 23 models from numerous manufacturers. The smallest include Fractal Design's Ridge (starting from 137,68 €) with a volume of just over 12 liters, NZXT's currently unavailable H1 V2 and Lian Li's A4-H2O (starting from 154,54 €).
Complete lists can be found on the Nvidia website.
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