Packaging

The Card

Colorful's card comes with a white color theme that looks fantastic. On the back you get some carefully selected colored highlights, the metal backplate has a cutout to let air flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 34.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1985 g.


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


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

Do note the push button here, which is used for the dual BIOS feature. By default the "standard" BIOS is active, which runs at reference clocks of 2610 MHz boost. To reach the advertised boost rating of 2685 MHz you must switch to the "Turbo" BIOS—press this button.

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

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Colorful Vulcan OC has six heatpipes—they are painted white! The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


Once the main heatsink is removed, a secondary metal bracket becomes visible, it provides additional cooling for the VRMs and helps strengthen the card.


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