Packaging

The Card

ASUS has come up with a new cooler design for the GeForce 40 "Dual" graphics cards. The shroud has some slightly transparent plastic, which lets you get a glimpse of the inner workings of the graphics card. On the other side you get a high-quality metal backplate.


Dimensions of the card are 27 x 13 cm, and it weighs 969 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.


The card uses a single 8-pin power connector, which, together with the PCIe slot, is specified for up to 225 W power draw. Some other RTX 4070 cards like the NVIDIA Founders Edition come with the new 16-pin connector, but they are limited to the same power draw levels. NVIDIA has given their partners free choice on what connector they use, and I suspect the classic 8-pin is a little bit cheaper to implement.


ASUS is the only company to implement a dual BIOS feature on their MSRP RTX 4070 cards. The default setting is "Performance," you may optionally enable a "quiet" mode that reduces the fan speeds considerably.

Teardown

Removing the top shroud is easy, which includes the fans, so they can be replaced easily in a few years.


ASUS's heatsink uses four heatpipes to keep the card cool. The main cooler also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The metal backplate protects the card against damage during installation and handling.