@@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.....
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.
@@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.
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
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...
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 There can be silent blowers, but most of the time heatsinks are too small so fans have to scream hard. Big heatsink and low rpm blower can be absolutely quiet.
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.
Bro what are you on about? This GPU eats dog turds and calls itself a pro, it's on par with garbage like the GTX 1630 and doesn't even have any extra Vram to show for its price tag.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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
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).
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 :).
64 bit bus is insane needs to be 128 bit minimum. These corporations are so greedy not to implement better tech even for low-end cards. im so glad i got a 2080 ti for $275 from a friend.
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 :)
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
Reminds me of an old RTX 2070 I got from an old Acer PC about 3/4 years ago. Spat its dummy out when I tired to load a game, went back to were it came from car boot.
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.
@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.
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).
to be completely honest I'm very impressed. I get it its not as good as what we have but it's a single slot card that needs no power cables. that's fucking amazing.
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.
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.
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
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)
If I had a time machine I'd *love* to bring this card with me back to the year 1999. Then once everyone's minds are blown by the sheer power of this card, I'd pull out the 4090.
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.
You asked if there are any games to request, can I offer you to start testing RimWorld for CPUs? Some tech RUclipsrs 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.
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.
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.
Honestly I'd like to see you do a video on some of the older AMD low profile workstation cards (WX3100, 3200, and 4100) as for used cards they can be found as low as 35 USD (but often average around 45-50) and for SFF users and ultra budget gamers they are a cheaper option to the GTX 1050 LP and 1650 LP Just would like to see if they are any good when they aren't being somewhat limited by the PCIe Gen 2 connection and power limit of a Dell Optiplex because when I had and tested a WX4100 the one time I was able to get an almost consistent 30 FPS in Halo Infinite, and a very consistent 60 FPS in Insurgency Sandstorm.
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.
Just looking at the Steam hardware survey from July 2024 and the most popular graphics are Intel 3000 and 4000 with the 3060 coming in next. I have a 1060 (6GB) and a 3070 plus an old desktop with a 1050Ti in it and an AIO with Intel graphics. The AIO is used for ebay stuff and the odd browsing session so has no need for a graphics card but the other machines are used for gaming and cloud gaming.
once human is way more cpu intensive than gpu. its also activly being optimized, this last big patch pushed it to the point i can run it at high settings on an i5 8600k at 60fps stable
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
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!
I feel like this is a good argument for the for the Intel a310 and a380, of course the caveat is having rebar, but $100 for a new gpu is pretty nice, and even better if you hook it up to a 720p tv, 720 looks pretty good on a 720 native device, instead of trying to run it on something where the screen is having to upscale a third or half of it's expected pixels. Also makes loseless scaling a good investment, plus special k to stably limit frames to make use of loseless scaling. Just found theses on Nvidia's own website for $135, so not terrible, could be better.
The Sparkle Arc A310 ECO would probably be better than this. It also doesn't need any additional power like this card, takes only 50 watts, and sits low profile. At least for any titles supporting XeSS. I'd like to see a side by side to see which low profile, low power modern card takes the win. I think you might have touched on this version existing in your Sparkle A310 ELF video.
This GPU isn't really about the performance - it's made for top end superior build quality with as much stability as possible. I did see another video on this card in which they overclocked it, which did quite a lot to help.
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!
As far as self powered low wattage goes its actually pretty amazing. Its not made for gaming, but the fact you can do most games on it is a bonus. Power is expensive and is increasingly becoming an issue in the world. (All our power problems would be solved if we just allowed nuclear power plants more *sighs in Enrico Fermi*)
For testing I’d recommend beamng drive, but it’s mostly cpu demanding with traffic enabled, so if you would like to test some CPUs, that’s one way to do it
The fact that this is considered a "bad" GPU depresses me... Modern gamers have insane performance expectations, and insane picture quality expectations. Apart from genuine problems like motion sickness in some people, there is absolutely zero reason anyone **needs** anything above 30fps.
Not editing out the camera drop... Respect.
the usual calm commentary on top of that makes it hilarious
Haha gotta embrace our mistakes
@@RandomGaminginHDare you sure that you are not related to Linus Sebastian the master of dropping things?
I really liked how he just kept on going without commenting on it xD
@@RandomGaminginHD watching to many Linus Drop Tips ? LOL
'You can have a great time in CS2'
Proceeds to get slaughtered.
😂
He's always said that he's bad at that game 🤣
The he says u can, not will.😊😊
Is it even possible to have a great time in CS? The game is a pure sweat box lol
PLAY DEADLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!
honestly a good repersentation for what an "RT 3030" GPU would have been.
Honestly I'd like to have a (35watt) SFF-LP 4040
Rhe 3050 6gb should have been a 3030. This is a 3010
@@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.....
Can't even afford the X
@@logannosleep5 isn't just buying AMD apu would be faster and less pointless parts? And that is even smaller than any card.
My enthusiasm died as soon as you said 64-bit bus width.
Haha yep that got me too
you need another 0 on the name to get any decent performance but the price goes up a lot
And it has like 30% of the cores enabled on the die compared to the 3050Ti 4GB.
But,but its 64!
There is something between 3050 6 and 8GB - RTX A1000, that have 3056 GPU but 128 bit bus width with 8GB RAM
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.
Founders Editions my brother in Christ. Looks better than every other card and no gamer aesthetics.
@@usr01 ehh, no. it's still a gamer aesthetic, just a different type
No RGB = At leadt 20% lower framerate.
@@ThylineTheGay I wouldn’t consider minimalism “gamer”.
@@usr01 agree to disagree, particularly on calling the founders 'minimalist'
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.
Yeah same 😁
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
@@philspam2087 no, they will not. APU's have been around for 20years, and still we have these small GPU's for a reason.
@@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.
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
Single Slot Cards
not gone just yet, yeston will sell you a single slot low profile 3050 6gb
@@quantum5661 Whoa, did this just come out? The only link I was able to find was a post on PCPartPicker's forum from _yesterday._
I don't
My laptop iGPU runs better than this card.
Me with my single slot rtx 2060 equivilent (Radeon Pro W5500, a single slot RX 5500)
Apparently a single slot 4060 is coming
We need more single slot LP cards!
For sure!
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
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...
Linus would be proud of that drop.
2:45 Shakespearean writing
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@@RandomGaminginHD 😄😄😄
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Time for a single slot showdown.
A400, RX6400 etc. etc. etc.
I love these little cards ❤
T400, t600, t1000 also, there's an 8gb t1000 now
Man I used to watch you all the time. Started getting back into pcs and you popped up in my recommended let’s go🔥🔥🔥
welcome back!
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.
They still exist if you look just a little harder.
Yes, there is even RTX4090 or 7900XTX with blower cooler.
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.
do you miss the horrible noise too?
@@arch1107 There can be silent blowers, but most of the time heatsinks are too small so fans have to scream hard. Big heatsink and low rpm blower can be absolutely quiet.
I always come here for the “wivoutfurvahadew”
😂 that got me
@@RandomGaminginHDalways nice to have a good laugh😂 keep up the great content man.
I'm here for the "jew'o core" and the "jew'al channel o' ram"
G'day @Dr.RojoMcDelly, Plus the "Hello everyone & welcome to another video" which I hear in my head even if Google is muted 😁
@@shaneeslickmusic to our ears 🙏🏼
Every bloody card can game on your channel... ;-)
you say that like it was a bad thing, you must miss those old pci cards that barely could draw a excell window
Welcome to the future! Where even the worst is okay!
@@arch1107god, remember when you needed a pc card just to play am mpeg?
Graphics cards have come so far
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.
Yuck.
But clocks much higher
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.
Maybe the A1000 next, same core but less gimped and 8GB VRAM. An 8GB 3050 more or less.
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
Bro what are you on about?
This GPU eats dog turds and calls itself a pro, it's on par with garbage like the GTX 1630 and doesn't even have any extra Vram to show for its price tag.
at 1080p with DLSS that's like 720p
@@BonusCrook I didn't say it was good, I said that I expected much worse performance in Act 3 of Baldur's Gate
I always undervolt my gpu and cpu.
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..
You sir are the Sean Bean of counter Strike 2 lol. Great video
I feel like this would be a great transcoder for Plex
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
whats something common that runs gta5 well ? looking to build something for my cousin to play fivem
I have a P2000, not bad for low 1080P gaming.
@@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.
It’s great for transcoding also
RTX A1000 next!
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.
7:31 the emphasis on 69😂
"I'm a simple man. I see a graphics card, I must see whether it can game."
i always wanted a gpu with gamecube controller ports in the back! and Nvidia delivered !
Great Little OBS card
*AV1 encoder
*RTX Broadcast
*RTX Voice
Ampere generation card doesn't have AV1 encoder, only AV1 decoder
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.
That card mined me a good bag of ethereum
Your channel's community is so nice bro u deserve it
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.
I am kind of surprised how power efficient this card is. Most cards that run at such TDP wouldn't even run these games.
yeah it held it own but think the price is what makes not worth it in the end.
They released it just to flex said efficiency i guess
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
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
@@Osaka2407 It's impressive considering that it wasn't designed to do anything outside of workstation tasks
Aaaand he delivers ;) great vid
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).
Any workstation that is okay with a sub-75W, PCIe-only-powered card doesn't need a real GPU.
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.
@@LeftJoystick I are a denthead who only talks in absolutes and my name is tiesto.
I love you videos, i watch them while i eat and you have a nice voice
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 :).
Ah ok thanks I wasn’t aware of that :)
The camera drop made me smile
64 bit bus is insane needs to be 128 bit minimum. These corporations are so greedy not to implement better tech even for low-end cards. im so glad i got a 2080 ti for $275 from a friend.
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.
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 :)
I remember when 768 cuda cores meant you had a good GPU :)
64bit bus has always meant a stinker of a GPU though. 😂
Didn't 1050Ti had 768 cores?
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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.
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.
This thing would have enough bandwidth to saturate 8 lanes, even if that's the case.
@@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.
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!
ty for reminding me about new nvidia drivers
Bro these garden shots scae me, bees might be everywhere.
Bees are calm and gentle creatures
great for arcade builds, or tv console experience with steam os
Isn't steam OS AMD only?
@@Al3ksandrOrlov bazzite might work
@@Al3ksandrOrlov there's also Wayland as well, mostly supported Nvidia drivers now
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.
Reminds me of an old RTX 2070 I got from an old Acer PC about 3/4 years ago. Spat its dummy out when I tired to load a game, went back to were it came from car boot.
Even your camera could not believe it.
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.
The A series of cards has always been expensive BUT used by consumers for tiny cases. They are binned INASANELY well
Most importantly, how does it compare to 1050Ti and 1650?
Half a GTX 1650.
This is basically a 1050ti. All specs are identical
@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.
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).
Aw man and here i was going out every night to try and find you in amsterdam
thanks for the info
if i remember right we will be getting a 7400 and 7300 soon you should take a look at those
to be completely honest I'm very impressed. I get it its not as good as what we have but it's a single slot card that needs no power cables. that's fucking amazing.
Just saw you in LTT's newest video. For about half a second.
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.
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.
Hey, this is not half bad, this card would nicely convert an old SFF office PC into a gaming beast for older titles.
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
I will do some comparisons :)
@@RandomGaminginHD thanks
The cs game play tho🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥵
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)
when you want ray tracing on your ppt presentation 😅
Office apps already have GPU acceleration. RT may come to them eventually.
If I had a time machine I'd *love* to bring this card with me back to the year 1999. Then once everyone's minds are blown by the sheer power of this card, I'd pull out the 4090.
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.
You asked if there are any games to request, can I offer you to start testing RimWorld for CPUs? Some tech RUclipsrs 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.
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.
Would be nice to a card like this in Amid Evil with RT
I was searching this same GPU benchmarks yesterday!!!
what funny naming considering what the A100 is lol
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.
Honestly I'd like to see you do a video on some of the older AMD low profile workstation cards (WX3100, 3200, and 4100) as for used cards they can be found as low as 35 USD (but often average around 45-50) and for SFF users and ultra budget gamers they are a cheaper option to the GTX 1050 LP and 1650 LP
Just would like to see if they are any good when they aren't being somewhat limited by the PCIe Gen 2 connection and power limit of a Dell Optiplex because when I had and tested a WX4100 the one time I was able to get an almost consistent 30 FPS in Halo Infinite, and a very consistent 60 FPS in Insurgency Sandstorm.
170 to 200 euro where I am which is nuts for the perfomance it puts out. You can basically get similar performance with an integrated gpu
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.
Just looking at the Steam hardware survey from July 2024 and the most popular graphics are Intel 3000 and 4000 with the 3060 coming in next. I have a 1060 (6GB) and a 3070 plus an old desktop with a 1050Ti in it and an AIO with Intel graphics. The AIO is used for ebay stuff and the odd browsing session so has no need for a graphics card but the other machines are used for gaming and cloud gaming.
once human is way more cpu intensive than gpu. its also activly being optimized, this last big patch pushed it to the point i can run it at high settings on an i5 8600k at 60fps stable
Please could you also review the RTX A1000?
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
Probably a nice card for a solid home desktop use with casual gaming. Better than integrated graphics from not long ago.
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!
The RT performance in Frogger and Donkey Kong was really poor, but War Thunder ran really well.....😆
I feel like this is a good argument for the for the Intel a310 and a380, of course the caveat is having rebar, but $100 for a new gpu is pretty nice, and even better if you hook it up to a 720p tv, 720 looks pretty good on a 720 native device, instead of trying to run it on something where the screen is having to upscale a third or half of it's expected pixels. Also makes loseless scaling a good investment, plus special k to stably limit frames to make use of loseless scaling. Just found theses on Nvidia's own website for $135, so not terrible, could be better.
It's very cute. The shell is nice.
Seeing the camera drop is new.
ECC memory is the biggest reason some worksattion cards cost more then there rtx counterparts.
The Sparkle Arc A310 ECO would probably be better than this. It also doesn't need any additional power like this card, takes only 50 watts, and sits low profile. At least for any titles supporting XeSS. I'd like to see a side by side to see which low profile, low power modern card takes the win. I think you might have touched on this version existing in your Sparkle A310 ELF video.
This GPU isn't really about the performance - it's made for top end superior build quality with as much stability as possible. I did see another video on this card in which they overclocked it, which did quite a lot to help.
Please review a1000, it has 20w tdp less than a2000 and is exactly the same as rtx 3050 with its 130w tdp. Great video!
Nice Backyard
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!
any prebuilt with i5 11400 is all good and well
I sold my mas 1660 ti. What would the best card to replace it with on a budget?
Would like to see you test some RUST and DayZ... has a pretty big player base :)
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As far as self powered low wattage goes its actually pretty amazing. Its not made for gaming, but the fact you can do most games on it is a bonus. Power is expensive and is increasingly becoming an issue in the world. (All our power problems would be solved if we just allowed nuclear power plants more *sighs in Enrico Fermi*)
Looks like a great Office/Media card with a possibility to play some games.
For testing I’d recommend beamng drive, but it’s mostly cpu demanding with traffic enabled, so if you would like to test some CPUs, that’s one way to do it
The fact that this is considered a "bad" GPU depresses me... Modern gamers have insane performance expectations, and insane picture quality expectations. Apart from genuine problems like motion sickness in some people, there is absolutely zero reason anyone **needs** anything above 30fps.