Packaging

The Card

Visually, the ASUS RTX 9070 TUF OC follows the design theme of the company's previous TUF cards, and it also matches the GeForce 50 TUF visuals exactly. On the back you get a high quality metal backplate with a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 33.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1435 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 60 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and a HDMI 2.1b.

With RDNA 4, AMD put effort to improve its standing with game streamers and creative professionals. It's done this by giving Navi 48 a dual VCN solution, so the GPU has two concurrent hardware accelerators for encoding and decoding. Perhaps the biggest changes at the silicon level is that AMD improved the encoding quality of its hardware H.264 and HEVC codecs. This was a niche complaint streamers had with AMD GPUs, and would avoid the brand altogether. The company also updated its AV1 hardware acceleration with support for B-frames, which are frames that lack image information, but math data that let the decoder reconstruct image data by comparing with the image data from adjacent I-frames containing it. This technique vastly improves streaming bitrates since half the frames lack image data.


The card uses two 8-pin power connectors, which allow a total power consumption of 300 W, plus 75 W from the PCIe slot.


ASUS has installed an RGB lighting zone near the corner of the card.


This BIOS switch lets you toggle between the default performance BIOS and an optional "quiet" BIOS.

Teardown

ASUS made the fan assembly removable, so it's easy to replace a fan if one breaks in a few years.


The heatsink uses seven heatpipes and provides cooling not only for the GPU, but also for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate protects against damage during installation and handling.