Lenovo Develops Mini-ITX Form-Factor GeForce RTX 4060
by Anton Shilov on July 17, 2023 5:30 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- Lenovo
- Mini ITX
- GeForce RTX
- AD107
One of design perks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 is its relatively low power consumption, which has allowed graphics cards makers to produce compact add-in-boards without the massive heatsink and VRM setups required by higher-end cards. At 115 Watts, the power consumption of the card is low enough that it makes even Mini-ITX-sized cards practical, which is great news for the SFF PC community. And to that end, we've seen a few manufacturers introduce Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060 designs, with Lenovo now joining them as the latest member of the club with their own Mini-ITX 4060 card.
Specifications-wise, Lenovo's Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060 is exactly what you'd expect: it a stock-configuration RTX 4060 that carries NVIDIA's AD107 graphics processor with 3072 CUDA cores that is mated to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory using a 128-but interface. Lenovo does not disclose display outputs configuration (though expect both DisplayPort and HDMI to be present), though we see an eight-pin auxiliary PCIe power connector on the back of the board.
Meanwhile, the video card is equipped with a dual-slot, single-fan cooling system, which is typical for cards in this segment. The small heatsink and single fan is a big part in what's enabled Lenovo to build such a small card, ensuring it will fit in a Mini-ITX system (at least so long as it can accept dual-slot cards).
Overall, with its size and scale as the world's largest PC maker, we've seen Lenovo designs and manufacture scores of components over the years for their own internal use, with their Mini-ITX video card being the latest example. For the moment, Lenovo's Mini-ITX GeForce RTX 4060 is exclusively used for the company's IdeaCentre GeekPro 2023 system that is sold on JD.com. The PC is powered by Intel's Core i5-13400F and is outfitted with 16GB of RAM along with a 1TB SSD.
And while Lenovo is only using the card internally for now, there's also a chance the card could eventually make it to retail as a grey market product. The large scale of the company that makes internal component production viable also means that Lenovo parts sometimes end up on etailer shelves, especially if the company has excess stock to move.
Source: JD.com
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PeachNCream - Monday, July 17, 2023 - link
I'm pretty sure the Mini-ITX standard is for motherboards and has nothing at all to do with expansion card measurements, but whatever it takes to label a product in these desperate times for consumer electronics companies will likely be tried to conjure up sales in a disinterested market.lmcd - Monday, July 17, 2023 - link
I'm pretty sure this pedantry is annoying and pointless, when it's clear that case manufacturers and card manufacturers have come up with some relatively tight de-facto standards about what constitutes a full-length card and what constitutes an ITX card. I can confidently use ITX in the search field and find a number of options, mostly anemic but occasionally a good option like this 4060.PeachNCream - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - link
Not sure why you would get annoyed over the fact that Mini-ITX is a motherboard rather than an expansion card form factor. If that's new information to you, rather than lashing out, you could do a bit of research. To be fair, the industry often mixes standardization with marketing like this so I can understand your confusion.lmcd - Friday, July 21, 2023 - link
You haven't delivered any facts here. The motherboard "standard" Mini-ITX has no more standards bodies concerning its development and design than the graphics card standard. It has tighter tolerances, but tight tolerances aren't actually a requirement for a set of parameters to be considered a "standard."PeachNCream - Sunday, July 23, 2023 - link
Tolerances really aren't something I was thinking about with ITX. Maybe I can help by elaborating a little to clear up your confusion and calm things down a bit. ITX motherboard layout is basically a smaller ATX standard board. Where relevant, it maintains identical screw hole layout and generally retains one expansion slot. Power connectors are typically identical to same-generation ATX as well, but the ITX standards were never applied to anything other than motherboards. The use in this article to associate it with an expansion card is likely a loose application of the term to generate sales from would-be buyers and, as other people have noted in comments below that I hope you take the time to read and understand since some of them are really well-informed, buyer research is still necessary given variances in small form factor cases that are designed to support ITX motherboards.I hope that helps you to understand a bit better. I totally get that the industry can be confusing and that can cause significant emotional distress, but with a bit of Google-fu and some time reading (Wikipedia has some excellent starting articles AND there are lots of YouTube videos you can also watch on the subject -- though double-check those videos for credibility) you can learn lots about these sorts of things and identify when companies like this co-opt a standard for their own uses. Good luck in discovering PC technology and don't get discouraged or frustrated, it's not worth it!
cbm80 - Monday, July 17, 2023 - link
The funny thing is that compact mini-ITX cases will NOT accept a "mini-ITX" card, while gamer mini-ITX cases accept larger cards. I've never seen a case that accepts "mini-ITX" cards and nothing larger, but maybe one exists?nfriedly - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - link
I have a Cooler Master Elite 110 mini ITX case which is pretty restrictive - officially it can take cards up to 210 mm / 8.268" - but the "hole" to get it into the case is a bit shorter than that, and, if you have a power connector on the end like this lenovo card, then you'll have to leave space for that too.Not sure what the exact length is on the lenovo card, but just from eyeballing it, I think it would fit nicely.
lmcd - Friday, July 21, 2023 - link
My old Silverstone ML08 designed its tolerances so there is a 3.5in HDD mount that works with Mini-ITX cards, but bigger cards will prevent its use.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - link
Mini-ITX GPUs are designed to fit int he same length of case as a mini ITX motherboard, not overhanging it.Why do you people have to be mad about everything?
Samus - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - link
Many of the earliest ITX cases such as the FT03-mini (over 10 year old design) support dual slot cards, albeit only 10" in length. Most SFF systems support dual slot cards in my experience, its the card length (and cooling capacity of the case limited by volume and airflow) that restrict modern cards from being used. The demise of blower-style coolers has been an Achilles of SFF for awhile, too, as those designs exhausted 'most' of the heat generated by the GPU out of the case, not into it.