I know I have the appearance of a grumpy old soul, and given half the chance, I'll whine about GPUs until the end of the universe pops up to say hello, but I honestly do like low-end, cheap graphics cards. Especially small ones that can fit into a compact case or just use a basic cooler, because that's all it needs. But looking at some of the new GeForce RTX 5050 cards, I'm surprised by just how ridiculously big some of them are.
Starting with Asus, for no reason other than writing this out alphabetically, Hardware Luxx's Andreas Schilling posted some preview images of incoming RTX 5050 cards on X. The first set of pictures shows exactly what you'd expect for a card that uses 130 W of power: two fans in a two-slot design.
