Nvidia's RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation Graphics Card Performs Well in Gaming Despite Workstation Focus

Nvidia's RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation graphics card is designed for compact workstations, making it an unlikely candidate for the list of best graphics cards for gaming. However, a recent review from Japanese publication Jisaku Hibi shows that the RTX 4000 SFF performs very closely to a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, with 65% lower power consumption.

The RTX 4000 SFF features the AD104 silicon, which also powers the GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, but with 48 fully-enabled Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) out of the 60, the card's CUDA core count is at 6,144, which is 4.5% more than the GeForce RTX 4070, but 20% less than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. Despite modest clock speeds of 1,290 MHz base clock and up to 1,565 MHz boost, the card boasts 20GB of GDDR6 memory.

Jisaku Hibi's gaming-focused review tested the RTX 4000 SFF across 15 titles, with the RTX 4000 SFF performing slightly slower than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which is rumored to be discontinued. Nonetheless, the RTX 4000 SFF still proved capable in gaming, outperforming the RTX A2000 and the mainstream GeForce RTX 3050 by comfortable margins.

With an MSRP of $1,250, the RTX 4000 SFF is not intended for gaming, but it's a noteworthy feature for professionals who need a break from work. Despite being a workstation graphics card with a small form factor, the RTX 4000 SFF performs impressively in gaming applications, thanks to Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture.