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Honestly, Nvidia has never made a low profile reference card in recent generations untill the A2000. All they have to do is design a 75W card, AIB's will make it into a low profile card. There were plenty of them for the 750ti and 1650.The real reason is cost, I think. The A2000 and A4000 SFF use high end chips that are expensive to produce. Sure, 1250 dollars is a crazy price, but they cannot sell this card at the price these second hand A2000's go for at the moment. If they used a lower end chip, we probably wouldn't see the same crazy energy efficiency.Look at it this way: an RTX 3050 downclocked to 75W, would never reach the same performance as the A2000. We would be the first ones to blame Nvidia for not giving us their full potential. The solution imo? Offer the A4000 at the same 600 dollars price tag as the A2000 went for.
Honestly, Nvidia has never made a low profile reference card in recent generations untill the A2000. All they have to do is design a 75W card, AIB's will make it into a low profile card. There were plenty of them for the 750ti and 1650.
The real reason is cost, I think. The A2000 and A4000 SFF use high end chips that are expensive to produce. Sure, 1250 dollars is a crazy price, but they cannot sell this card at the price these second hand A2000's go for at the moment. If they used a lower end chip, we probably wouldn't see the same crazy energy efficiency.
Look at it this way: an RTX 3050 downclocked to 75W, would never reach the same performance as the A2000. We would be the first ones to blame Nvidia for not giving us their full potential. The solution imo? Offer the A4000 at the same 600 dollars price tag as the A2000 went for.
