Introduction

GALAX GeForce RTX 4070 EX Gamer White is a custom-design graphics card by one of the most recognizable graphics card brands in Asia (going back to the days when it was called Galaxy). This is the first RTX 4070 we tested which has a white-themed product design, which should go well with boutique themed gaming PC builds. This exact graphics card is also sold under the KFA2 brand in select markets, under the same model name. The GALAX EX Gamer White is priced at the NVIDIA MSRP for the RTX 4070 of $600, and so its review was eligible to go live yesterday (April 12) along with the other $600 RTX 4070 cards, but our sample came in a little late. This still looks like a premium product that can command a higher-than-MSRP price, and it even has a factory overclock.



The GeForce RTX 4070 is the most affordable performance-segment graphics card from the RTX 40-series Ada generation. It is designed for maxed out AAA gaming at 1440p, including real time ray tracing; as well as high refresh-rate competitive e-sports. 4K Ultra HD gaming is possible, if you know your way around game settings (or let GeForce Experience find you the right ones); and can use DLSS or the newer DLSS 3 Frame Generation. Ada is NVIDIA's third graphics architecture since it debuted RTX, its groundbreaking real time ray tracing technology that combines ray traced elements, such as lighting, shadows, illumination, reflection, and motion-blur, with conventional raster 3D graphics, to significantly improve realism in games.

The RTX 4070 has been carved out of the same AD104 chip as the RTX 4070 Ti that the company launched earlier this year, albeit heavily cut-down. It features just 46 out of 60 streaming multiprocessors (SM), which means it has 5,888 CUDA cores, 184 Tensor cores, 46 RT cores, 184 TMUs, and 64 ROPs on tap. The memory is untouched from the Ti, you still get 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory across the chip's 192-bit memory bus.

As we stated earlier, the GALAX RTX 4070 EX Gamer White comes with a factory overclock, to 2535 MHz rated boost, 60 MHz higher than the NVIDIA default of 2475 MHz, or 2.4%. You get a premium-looking all-white cooling solution that's a little over two slots thick, comes with three large fans (the one in the center is larger than the others); and the card includes RGB LED illumination. You also get an external RGB header to sync the rest of your lighting to the card. The cooler shroud and backplate are white, while the fan impellers are frosted-transparent with white hub caps. The PCB underneath is still black. The GALAX card provides the convenience of a legacy 8-pin PCIe power connector instead of the modern 12VHPWR.