this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
61 points (91.8% liked)

PC Gaming

8568 readers
348 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

optimized for SFF rigs and HTPCs

That's why. Not really gaming, just a basic card for a specific niche.

Industrial PCs too, fanless stuff is great when you don't want dust continuously pumped through the case, like in a woodshop (sawdust) or a mechanic (oily dirt and dust).

Although personally, in those cases, I think you'd see comparable performance just by using modern onboard CPU graphics. I would rather save the space and money and skip a discrete card entirely.

[–] ethd@beehaw.org 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You'll have substantially better results from modern integrated graphics (even on the low-end Intel UHD side). This is genuinely the card you get if you just need the extra outputs and don't care about performance, or you have a CPU lacking integrated graphics and don't care about performance.

In other words, there are use cases for it, but I absolutely agree that a gaming card this is not and it has a very specific niche.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember that some CPUs come without the iGPU like older Ryzen or some intel chips.

[–] ethd@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Yup, addressed in my original reply.

load more comments (1 replies)