Packaging

The Card

The ASUS Dual OC looks bulky and muscular. The color theme consists of black, with some gray highlights. While the main cooler shroud is made of plastic, the backplate is metal.


Dimensions of the card are 27.0 x 13.5 cm, and it weighs 942 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 51 mm.


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

NVIDIA introduced the concept of dual NVDEC and NVENC Codecs with the Ada Lovelace architecture. This means there are two independent sets of hardware-accelerators; so you can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel or one stream at double the FPS rate. While the RTX 4070 Ti features dual units, the RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 come with only one of them. 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.


All GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics cards use the 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, an adapter cable is included in the box.


Right next the power input is a dual BIOS switch, which lets you switch to a secondary "quiet" BIOS, which runs at a more relaxed fan curve and stops the fan in idle.

Teardown

ASUS lets you remove the main cooler shroud, so the fans can be cleaned and replaced easily, without disturbing the thermal paste on the main cooler.


The thermal solution on the ASUS Dual has four heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


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