PNY unveils "Slim" RTX 50-series GPUs. The RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070 feature dual-slot designs, making high-end power possible for compact SFF and ITX PC builds.
If I were commissioning a new PC build today 🖥️, I would undoubtedly lean toward a small form factor mATX or ITX setup 📦.
Thanks to manufacturers like Fractal Design and Lian Li, modern compact cases can accommodate high-end hardware 🚀 without becoming thermal nightmares 🔥, effectively rendering the bulky mid-tower monstrosities of the past obsolete 🦖. This shift is exactly why PNY’s new “Slim” line of RTX 50-series designs immediately caught my attention ✨. All three distinct variants—covering the RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, and 5080 🎮—maintain a strictly two-slot profile 📏, cooled by a pair of 120mm fans 🌀. Consequently, even the most powerful model, the 5080, remains remarkably svelte at just 11.8 inches (300mm) in length 🤏. That compact footprint means it can slide comfortably into a tight media PC chassis 📺, such as the Fractal Ridge, with room to spare.
While it is true that NVIDIA’s 🟢 own reference designs for the 5070 and 5080 are also dual-slot solutions ✌️, most third-party manufacturing partners tend to inflate their versions into 2.5 or 3-slot behemoths 🧱. PNY is bucking that trend 🚀. Furthermore, because there is no Founders Edition available from NVIDIA for the 5070 Ti 🚫, PNY’s slim interpretation of that specific GPU is poised to find a dedicated fanbase among space-conscious PC enthusiasts 🛠️.
PNY indicates that these new cards will arrive in February 📅, with plans to offer both standard and overclocked iterations 🏎️ of all three models. However, the company has notably withheld pricing details 💰. That hesitation likely reflects the current, volatile state of the broader PC industry 🌪️. With the cost of many RAM kits doubling or tripling in recent months due to the insatiable demand of the AI boom 🤖, building a new computer has become a prohibitively expensive endeavor 💸, and market indicators suggest GPUs will only get costlier heading into 2026 📈. The component crunch is severe enough that NVIDIA is reportedly planning to resurrect the RTX 3060 🧟—a card originally released in 2021—to serve as a necessary stopgap 🔄.
