PALIT’s RTX 4060 GPU Comes With A Physically Shorter PCIe Connector

PALIT’s RTX 4060 GPU Comes With A Physically Shorter PCIe Connector

Virtually all GPUs you see these days comes with a full size x16 PCIe connector regardless of which part of the segment it belongs to. However, Palit took something of an unusual route – since RTX 4060 is only electrically connected to 8 lanes (with PCIe 4.0 protocol), the AIB decided to cut the connector size in half, likely to save materials and waste.

This occurred to two of Palit’s RTX 4060 lineup, namely the DUAL and single-fan StormX model. Palit often sits on the low end of pricing spectrum as far as AIBs go, so cost cutting is potentially high up in the company’s list especially in the times where profit margins for NVIDIA GPUs gets ever thinner, which EVGA famously quit its GPU business for. That said, don’t expect the thermals to be great, as revealed by various reviews.

Twitter user fpsojisan_yt took this photo of the PCIe interface showing the Palit card’s rather tiny connectors:

物理的に×8なってるやん pic.twitter.com/FAIedoLyLx

— Fおじ (@fpsojisan_yt) July 13, 2023

 

As mentioned, since the GPU itself is only x8 electrically connected, there is no performance penalties by switching to a x8 physical connector. However, some GPU manufacturers may stick to x16 simply by the extra mechanical support it may provide, especially for the heavier triple-fan triple-slot models (such as ROG STRIX and GIGABYTE AORUS) to prevent GPU sagging.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: I wonder how would the GPU be taken out now that it doesn’t come in contact with the tab?