Slim-sized NVIDIA RTX GPUs from PNY: A Solution for PC Builders

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Build Type: A small form factor mATX or ITX is ideal for modern PC builds.
Cooling Design: PNY’s RTX 50-series features dual-slot cards with efficient cooling from just two 120mm fans.
Length: The RTX 5080 measures 11.8 inches (300mm), suitable for compact media PC enclosures.
Release Timeline: PNY plans to release the new GPUs in February, but pricing details are currently unavailable.

If I were building a new PC today, I’d go for a small form factor mATX or ITX build. With companies like Fractal Design and Lian Li making cases that can fit modern GPUs without sacrificing on thermals, you don’t need to settle for the old mid-tower monstrosities of yesteryear. And that’s why PNY’s new “Slim” model RTX 50-series designs caught my eye. All three variants, covering the 5070, 5070 Ti and 5080, are two slot cards with just a pair of 120mm fans for cooling. As a result, even the largest of the three new models, the 5080, is relatively svelte, coming in at 11.8-inches or 300mm long. That means it can comfortably fit with room to spare in a media PC enclosure like the Fractal Ridge.

Technically, NVIDIA’s reference designs for the 5070 and 5080 are also dual-slot solutions, but most of the company’s manufacturing partners produce two-and-half or three slot variants of those cards. And with no Founders Edition version of the 5070 Ti available from NVIDIA, PNY’s new take on that GPU will likely find a dedicated fanbase among PC enthusiasts.

PNY says the new cards will arrive in February, with the company planning to offer both standard and overclocked versions of all three models. However, PNY isn’t sharing pricing details just yet. That probably has to do with the state of the entire PC industry right now. With the price of most RAM kits doubling and tripling in recent months due to the AI boom, building a new computer has become prohibitively expensive, and all signs point to GPUs getting more costly in 2026. In fact, the memory crunch is so bad that NVIDIA is reportedly planning to bring back the RTX 3060, a GPU from 2021, as a stopgap. Yikes.

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