A low-profile, single-slot graphics card is an essential component for small form factor PCs, servers and workstation. They can help when space is at a premium or when you want to be able to easily take your system with you.

Budget low-profile, single-slot graphics card

SPARKLE Intel Arc A310 ECO

This card is perfect for less demanding workloads while still being stronger than most iGPU's. Being an Intel card, it is particularly interesting for video transcoding and light gaming.

Specifications

  • Memory: 4 GB GDDR6
  • TDP: 50W
  • Output: 2x Mini DisplayPort 2.0, 1x HDMI 2.0b

 

Nvidia RTX A2000

The RTX A2000 is a somewhat older card, but it is still available plentiful on the second-hand market. It can be found for cheap on marketplaces like eBay. While it originally comes with a double-slot cooler, n3rdware offers a premium, full copper cooler to make your RTX A2000 into a single-slot card.

Specifications

  • Memory: 6GB GDDR6 or 12GB GDDR6
  • TDP: 70W
  • Output: 4x Mini DisplayPort 1.4

 

Best value low-profile, single-slot graphics cards

Yeston RTX 3050 6GB

This can be considered the best consumer-grade card of this list. It is a regular 'GeForce' card, so it is mainly aimed at gamers. Like all other cards on this list, it requires no additional power connector and comes in a trendy pink color.

Specifications

  • Memory: 6GB DDR6
  • TDP: 70W
  • Output: 1x DisplayPort 1.4a + 1x HDMI 2.1

RTX 2000 Ada generation

The next card is a serious step up from the RTX 3050. The RTX 2000 Ada generation is about 40% faster and features a very generous 16GB of memory, making it even suitable for intensive tasks like LLM training. Like the RTX A2000, you can use n3rdware's premium cooler to transform this into a single-slot card.

Specifications

  • Memory: 16GB DDR6
  • TDP: 70W
  • Output: 4x Mini DisplayPort 1.4a

The most powerful low-profile, single slot graphics card

The most powerful card, without a doubt, is the Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada generation. Featuring a whopping 20GB of graphics memory, this card is especially capable for intensive workloads like LLM training, compute workloads and rendering. This card can also be equipped by a premium n3rdware cooler to transform it into a single-slot card.

Specifications

  • Memory: 20GB DDR6
  • TDP: 70W
  • Output: 4x Mini DisplayPort 1.4a