Packaging

The Card

ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4060 Ti OC uses the latest generation of the company's muscular-looking TUF Gaming cooling solution, which uses a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's ventilated by a trio of fans. The card certainly looks like it's from a segment above when installed in your case.


Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1088 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere).

The new 8th Gen NVENC now accelerates AV1 encoding, besides HEVC. You also get an "optical flow accelerator" unit that is able to calculate intermediate frames for videos, to smooth playback. The same hardware unit is used for frame generation in DLSS 3.


ASUS opted for a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, this configuration is good for up to 225 W.


This little switch lets you select between the default "Performance" P-BIOS, and the Quiet Q-BIOS, which runs a more relaxed fan curve for reduced noise.

Teardown

The cooler shroud and the main heatsink are held to the PCB and backplate with separate sets of screws. What this means is that the cooler shroud comes off, without disturbing the heatsink and its TIM or thermal pads, so you can easily clean the fans and the heatsink without much effort.


ASUS uses a set of nickel-plated copper base-plates, which are connected to two aluminium fin-stacks on either ends of heatpipes.


Four heatpipes move heat away from the GPU surface to the heatsink.


ASUS is using a sturdy metal backplate that's folded on the edges, so it works to counteract PCB bending over time.