Packaging

The Card

Gainward's cards comes with a complex industrial look on the main cooler, maybe reminding me a bit of alien structures in sci-fi movies. On the back you get a high-quality metal backplate, the front cooler shroud is made from plastic.


Dimensions of the card are 33.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 1521 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 66 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 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 Gainward Phoenix GS has eight 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.