Palit Intros GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GameRock OmniBlack Graphics Card

[btarunr]

Palit today introduced the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GameRock OmniBlack graphics card. The GameRock OmniBlack is a variant of the GameRock custom design that does away with all illumination. The acrylic embellishment that's supposed to resemble ice or frost on the cooler shroud, remains, it's not illuminated from behind. The three 80 mm GaleHunter fans are now black and opaque, unlike on the original GameRock board, where they were frosted acrylic, and illuminated. The card features the same heavy aluminium fin-stack heatsink you'd find on the company's RTX 4080 GameRock series. The cooler makes the card 3.5-slot thick (71.5 mm thick), almost 33 cm long, and 13.7 cm tall.

Palit has increased the power limit of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER to 295 W, up from its reference 285 W, although interestingly, the card sticks to NVIDIA reference clock speeds of 2340 MHz base, and 2610 MHz boost, with its memory running at 21 Gbps. The card offers dual-BIOS, however, both BIOSes run the card at the same speeds, with the "silent" BIOS having a quieter fan profile. Based on the same 5 nm "AD103" silicon as the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 SUPER, the new RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is equipped with 8,448 CUDA cores, 264 Tensor cores, 66 RT cores, 264 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. Palit did not reveal pricing for the GameRock OmniBlack.



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[AkKAtTacK]

¿So basically they increased power draw for absolutely no benefit? Even though it's only 10w, I still do not understand the rationale behind this.

 

[shhnedo]

So basically a 4070TiS with a 4090 space consumption... Why? Am I too simpleminded to understand this?

 

[bonehead123]

Well, while I appreciate their attempt to make an all-black card, if they would remove that silly-looking bling-bling facade on the front, some folk might actually take this card seriously, but as it is, it's a big fat m.E.h. IMO..

 

[Scircura]

¿So basically they increased power draw for absolutely no benefit? Even though it's only 10w, I still do not understand the rationale behind this.

They didn't increase power draw, they increased the default power limit. Most cards allow you to adjust this up beyond the default (the max value depends on the card), and all cards can be adjusted down below the default limit. Raising the power limit allows the card to run a few MHz faster, because out of the box, these cards are generally not running at their maximum boost clock for modern AAA games but are instead power limited. That is a benefit, although too small to measure in a benchmark and definitely too small for the end user to notice.

 

[Vayra86]

¿So basically they increased power draw for absolutely no benefit? Even though it's only 10w, I still do not understand the rationale behind this.

There's at least 13mhz right there!!!!1ONE

 

[Ruru]

Kinda interesting that it's a three-slot card, it has only two of those slot bracket lips.

¿So basically they increased power draw for absolutely no benefit? Even though it's only 10w, I still do not understand the rationale behind this.

Power limit, not power draw. Personally I don't see anything bad in increased power limit, it's just a good thing.

 

[Raptor_i]

This is too much heatsink for RTX 4070 Ti SUPER.

 

[Random_User]

Kinda interesting that it's a three-slot card, it has only two of those slot bracket lips.

The "cost effective" design. The product is already too overpriced, so they had to save on at least couple cm² of metal sheet.

This is too much heatsink for RTX 4070 Ti SUPER.

This is indeed absurd. The card could be easilly two slot thick, if it was within its efficiency sweet spot. Also, the card seems to have enough space to put even four PCIE 8 pin connectors, but it still has the dump connector in the most uncomfortable, and heat intensive spot.

 

[mechtech]

Still waiting for stitched black leather card................

 

[Knight47]

This is too much heatsink for RTX 4070 Ti SUPER.

I had the pleasure to own this card for a day. ~62 celsius core and 58 celsius memory temperature with 30% fan speed(~1100 rpm) while running Furmark(296W power draw).

If only the fans weren't so trash on it like on every Gainward, Palit and Zotac cards.

 

[Raptor_i]

I had the pleasure to own this card for a day. ~62 celsius core and 58 celsius memory temperature with 30% fan speed(~1100 rpm) while running Furmark(296W power draw).

If only the fans weren't so trash on it like on every Gainward, Palit and Zotac cards.

Classic issue from Palit/Gainward and I thought they fixed it with 40 series.

 

[Prima.Vera]

¿So basically they increased power draw for absolutely no benefit? Even though it's only 10w, I still do not understand the rationale behind this.

Easy. More overclocking room?

 

[Knight47]

Classic issue from Palit/Gainward and I thought they fixed it with 40 series.

Did they change to this fan on the 3000 series? I know Zotac has this issue since 1000 series. My Gainward 2070 has no coil whine or weird fan noise unlike my previous Sapphire and Asus cards. That's why I went with Gainward/Palit instead. So far 2 out of 2 cards had the annoying fan noise, let's see if the 3rd one has it too.

 

[Macro Device]

Sorry Palit but this visual design deserves a spotlight in the abomination museum. Ye olde GameRock from <2017 was much better:

Personally owned a 1080 Ti of such design. These flashy "diamonds" only make for a gypsy all the rage look.

Also I agree it's way too huge of a cooling system for this chip.