Nvidia is positioning itself as the new champion of small form factor graphics cards with its new SFF-enabled, frenetic graphics card specifications. This is nvidia trying to set pseudo-industry standards for both small form factor GPUs and chassis. The idea is to provide users with a clear message about which graphics card will fit comfortably inside which chassis.

Indeed, because for now it can be a bit of a nightmare. Especially since so many chassis builders are tweaking the case design to deal with more chonky graphics rubs that want to stick to a smaller chassis, that's never possible.

But you have to spend time cross-referencing the specification sheets of both the future graphics card you're after and the chassis you want to build your ickle PC, then take a ton of polaroids and fasten them to the cork board with a string looped between and jump into an ever more complex algorithm. Before you need to dive in...All just to make sure you can stick a decent GPU to your SFF chassis.

So matching a couple of badges would not just make things easier, "Of course, it would." Well, obviously as long as you just wanted an Nvidia card.

The guidelines for sff-enabled frenzied graphics cards are, to be fair, quite generous. The card and cooler can be up to 2.5 slots, 304mm long and 151mm deep. To accommodate the "hobbyist" tag, the card must be at or above the RTX4070 level. Then the GPU volume of the chassis, with a length of 312mm and a depth of 154.5mm, is still 2.5 slots, but it should be slightly larger.

As long as your card and case fit those guidelines, you'll get a shiny new badge. I expect. I haven't actually seen the badge yet, but I think it must be shiny. 

And you won't know it, there's already a bunch of graphics cards and PC chassis that make the grade. According to Nvidia's tape measure, there are a total of 33 different GeForce cards that count as SFF-enabled frenetic graphics cards and 18 chassis from different vendors that count.

Given these generous GPU dimensions, it may not always be the case with what most people class as a small form factor. Traditionally, you'd think of a much shorter card as a slim card, a half-height card, or a small form factor graphics card.

This is what makes such an interesting push from Nvidia for me, especially aimed at the hobbyist market from the start. This makes me wonder if there may actually be truth in the rumors of the RTX5090 series, which suggest that the RTX5090 is actually a dual-slot GPU and may not be the same kind of monster as the RTX3090 or RTX4090. Also, if it's a dual-slot, or 2.5-slot card, the RTX5090 will certainly be classed as an SFF-enabled frenetic graphics card. Of course, it assumes that it is shorter than the length of a cricket bat (look at that).