The NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF is a next generation graphics card based on the architecture Ada Lovelace that focuses on efficiency, that is, on offering a good performance while maintaining contained consumptionand it also has a very small format and only occupies two expansion slots.
It goes without saying that it is aimed at professionals who want mount compact workstations with adjusted consumptionbut who are not willing to have to give up a high level of benefits or good performance for this reason.
Its specifications are those of a high-end model, since it uses the same GPU as the GeForce RTX 4070, the AD104, but in its complete configuration, which means adds 6,144 shaders, it has 192 texturing units, 192 fourth-generation tensor cores, 80 raster units, 48 third-generation RT cores, has a 160-bit bus, has 20 GB of 14 GHz GDDR6 memory, and has 48 MB of L2 cache . Its frequencies are 1,290 MHz-1,565 MHz, normal and turbo mode.
Its frequencies are low compared to what we have seen in the Ada Lovelace series, but this does not prevent it from offering a power of up to 19.23 TFLOPs in FP32, and the most impressive thing is that he achieves it with a TGP of only 70 watts. This means that it does not need any additional power connectors, and it can work without problems even with a power supply of only 300 watts.
In raw power it is capable of surpassing the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which reaches 16.20 TFLOPs in FP32, although the results we obtain in the real world vary and in many cases the first one ends up being superior. It is somewhat understandable since, in the end, that one has a TGP of 200 watts. Nevertheless, On a technical level, the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF is on another levelas it supports DLSS 3 (frame generation) and has more advanced shaders, tensor cores and RT cores.
Impressive the improvement that NVIDIA has achieved in terms of efficiency with Ada Lovelace, and surprising the level of performance that this RTX 4000 SFF has been able to achieve with an average consumption of only 70 watts. In case anyone has any doubts, I remind you that you do not need additional power because you can get up to 75 watts of power from the PCIe connector.
