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If you're a small form factor enthusiast, you probably have struggled to find a highly performant GPU that

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isn't a stupidly large size. Even the

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5070 Founders Edition, which in today's standards is a pretty small card, ain't

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even that small. It's still two whole slots, and it's long. It's too long for

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this beautiful little case. Thankfully, Colorful has answered our prayers and

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has brought us the 5070 iGame [music] Mini.

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A very short, delightful,

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little single-fan GPU.

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And it's a 5070, and it's got a a

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weird box. Looks like a creeper's legs.

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Inside of the box, we have our documentation, quick start guide, as

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well as QC. And here is the GPU itself.

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Oh, it's got some heft to it. Okay, it's small, but it's not light. And just

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taking a look on the outside, it's because the vast majority of this is pretty

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dense heatsink. Probably going to be essential because

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this is such a small card. In fact, as I've become more used to seeing like

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triple-slot behemoth heatsinks on top of 5070s, it feels like this really

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shouldn't work. But let's compare it to the Founders Edition, which is kind of

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one of the smaller cards on the market. Compared to the Founders Edition, the

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iGame Mini is substantially shorter, but maybe a little bit taller. It maintains

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the same two-slot thickness and is actually [music] like just barely

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thinner than the Founders, but not in a way that would matter for pretty much

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any configuration. In terms of the type of cooler, while the 5070 Founders Edition has the same

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look as the double-flow through coolers found on the higher-end GPUs, it

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actually is only flow through on the one side, and this goes directly into a

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board that's got this big. And you can actually see the boards are of similar size, but it

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probably doesn't have the same striking V cutout that you'll see on the board of

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a Founders Edition. However, we can see that it's [music] very technically a

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flow through right at this edge,

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where you can see just a little bit through the heatsink. And if you look from this edge, you can kind of see the

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cutout in the board there. So, this isn't just a square GPU.

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They say it's OC, which I think is kind of surprising when you're using [music]

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such a small card to go with an OC model, but

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it's an OC in name only because they're adding 45 MHz to the boost clock and

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nothing to the base clock. It's basically not OC'd.

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And it's not going to perform any faster. Well, we'll talk about performance in a little bit. But in

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general, it's a RTX 5070 that has 6,144

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CUDA cores, 192 [music] fifth-gen tensor cores, 48 fourth-gen ray-tracing cores,

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and it's got 12 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, access

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to NVIDIA's NVENC encoders, and

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has a TDP or TGP, I don't know. They all have a dumb word. Basically, it's

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supposed to pull 250 W. More or less. They recommend a 650 W

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power supply with this, and it connects via a 12-V 2x6 connector.

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In terms of your display outputs, you get the same as you'd find on the Founders. That's three a DisplayPort

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2.1b and one HDMI 2.1.

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And at the end of the day, it is just another [music] 5070. We're going to put

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and save 15%. In terms of aesthetics, I

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think it's kind of interesting that they went with like this very slightly sparkly aluminum. And we got some shiny

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sheen on our iGame [music] Mini.

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I think it's honestly pretty

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tasteful for a lot of gaming cards. There's not a whole lot you can do in

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terms of style when you're trying to just really make sure that you're cooling something well. I do wish that

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we didn't have this ugly GeForce RTX

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non-addressable RGB logo. There is actually addressable RGB on the card,

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but it's only this mini logo. I'm not too worried about RGB. I like my

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computers to be silent and unseen. That's why I like um small form factor,

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so I can tuck it away somewhere else and not have to have this big honking thing

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on my desk. Let's get this in.

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I've been an advocate of thinking moving the power connectors up here

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cuz I think it's always it's always sucks when you're just like, "Oh, here's this beautiful GPU." And it's like this

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honking huge cable, especially for high-power GPUs. Well, now with the uh

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600-W uh 12-V high-power connectors,

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it's not as big of a deal. It's just that you that you know, the trade-off is

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your house might burn down. Is there another model of 5070 or 5080 that would

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fit in this case? Like, this is probably

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the only 5070 that fits in this case that I can think of. All of them are

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typically much longer and larger, so

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if you want to build in this case and have a relatively high-power GPU, this

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is literally your only choice. And here we are in a running system.

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Though it doesn't really look like it's running because it has a zero RPM fan

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mode, and also it looks like that RGB was either a lie or requires us to

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install the drivers, which if you if you would leave one

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>> [music] >> negative comment about not seeing the RGB on this GPU,

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I quit. So, the RGB isn't working because you need to download the iGame

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Mini software, which um I'd probably skip and just stick to the

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normal NVIDIA drivers for controlling the fans. Uh you're not getting that

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much ARGB, [music] so you're not really missing out on much. But look at how cute it is.

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But the looks don't matter if the frame rate sucks. So, let's see if this tiny

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form factor is compromising performance. In terms of gaming performance, well,

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it's a 5070, and it's barely overclocked, so it performs

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pretty much identically to the FE in every single game at any resolution. If

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you want to get more depth on these results, feel free to head over to the Labs article. We'll have that linked in

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the description. But you can feel contented knowing that you're not

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sacrificing gaming performance, which bodes well for potential thermal

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performance. Now, when we look at these cool little scans that we got of the

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GPU, we can see that it's four heat pipes on it. It really reminds me a lot

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of the low-profile CPU coolers from the likes of like Noctua or be quiet, um

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which makes sense cuz it's basically a low-profile small cooler. And

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apparently, it's doing the trick. It's actually doing a better job at

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managing GPU temperatures than the 5070.

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What you might worry about would be your hotspot temperatures on your GPU, but

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NVIDIA doesn't give us access to hotspot temperatures anymore, so we have to take

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[music] the GPU temp at face value here. And in

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our Combuster heat stress test, we can see that the Mini is actually [music]

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cooling better than the FE version, which is crazy. By like a wide margin,

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like 5°. And

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we're seeing that at relatively similar clock speeds and [music] similar power

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draws with our PCAT. I'm honestly really surprised. I would expect it to perform

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thermally worse. Basically, whether it's a synthetic workload, a productivity

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workload, or gaming workload, this thing is going to be thermally fine. However,

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we don't know if that comes at the cost of sound.

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Because you can cool a lot of stuff by just making those fans rip. So, let's

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get into a game. If we get If we pair all the sensors, I can turn the other

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fans down and just let it really throttle. Uh they put a 13900K in this

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PC for some reason and gave it the dinkiest of dinky coolers.

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Um But I put this in the system cuz I wanted to hear how loud the GPU [music]

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is. So far, doesn't seem that much worse than the

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absolutely screaming case fans because

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where CPU's pinned at 100°C.

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Cuz we put it 350-W CPU on

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a 65-W cooler. Okay, did the CPU fan go fully off? I

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think it did. Okay, we're going to turn that back up. We're going to get that one up a little bit. But basically,

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right now, we you're not hearing any fan noise from the case fans. This is all

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just the GPU running about 30%.

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And we're in Cyberpunk at 4K with DLSS on, I think, medium.

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It's performing well, and the GP temps are 85, and that's with like it being

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relatively quiet. It's definitely not as silent as like a larger heatsink CPU

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would be. And if we go up to like 100,

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that's pretty quiet for 100.

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And like honestly, like it's not an annoying whine like a lot of loud GPUs

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get. Maybe it's because of the enclosure that we're in.

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You know, it's Wow, that's a lot of heat coming out of there.

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We're probably seeing our thermal performance actually hindered by this case's design. Like, our fan's pulling

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air from this far side of the GPU, where there's very little ventilation that

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isn't it just trying to kick out that own exhaust. There's not a lot of pull in there. It would perform better with

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something that has more direct access to

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fresh air. And that's probably why we're seeing like 10-ish degrees more than what we

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saw on the bench. Sound wise, though, if that's 100%,

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that's really not that bothersome.

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So, I wouldn't really be all that worried. We died.

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I think the CPU overheated. Most form small form factor cases tend

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to be very concerned about GPU airflow and do their best. You will usually find

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that a GPU will performing worse in a small form factor case compared to a

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larger case, but this seems like a particularly problematic enclosure.

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But yeah, if this is at 100% which is probably rarely going to run at

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unless it's really, really, really running hot,

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honestly, that's pretty good.

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It makes a triple slot like massive 570 just kind of look

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embarrassing. Cuz I mean like you just got this tiny guy, but here's the issue.

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It's the price. This thing, also not widely available in

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North America, we had to import this bad boy, is selling for about 5,199

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yuan or $738,

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which is a heck of a lot more than the $509

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that is already probably too much for a 570, which sucks because this is like

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[music] the only thing like this on the market. So, I think I hope that they are

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able to drive enough sales to show that there is an actual audience, people who

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want this kind of tech, because man, this thing's sick.

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I'm tired of stupid big GPUs.

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But you know what I'm not tired of? You. Thanks for watching this video. If you

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enjoyed this, why don't you watch one of our other GPU videos? I don't know. What

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about the 5080 roundup if you want to see some stupid big ones?