what's the purpose of a backplate on a graphics card?

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In theory it provides passive cooling to VRM on the back of the card provided you actually have a card that has VRM on the back. Plus it provides rigidity to the card that can prevent sag.

In reality, AESTHETIC

It can help with heat dissipation and protect it from things from above like dust or liquid cooler leakage.

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>>56659492
Rigidity and thermal capacity.

Also, bare pcb looks ugly when the components are all over the place.

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They should add some small spikes/fins on them for better heat dissipation.

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the ekwb backplate on my 1080 gets to 50-55°C under load, it does work as a heatsink in practice.

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>>56659492
Increases the percied value of the card so it can be sold at better margin. The thing costs 4 cents to manufacture

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this

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