Packaging

The Card

As the name suggests, the RTX 4070 EX Gamer White comes with a white color theme which looks fantastic. There's a few smaller dark highlights on the metal backplate, which help add a bit of contrast.


Galax has placed RGB lighting behind the three fans and there's a second illuminated zone in the top right, on the GeForce RTX logo.


Dimensions of the card are 32 x 13 cm, and it weighs 1066 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


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

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.


The card uses a single 8-pin power connector, which, together with the PCIe slot, is specified for up to 225 W power draw. Some other RTX 4070 cards like the NVIDIA Founders Edition come with the new 16-pin connector, but they are limited to the same power draw levels. NVIDIA has given their partners free choice on what connector they use, and I suspect the classic 8-pin is a little bit cheaper to implement.
The card's default power limit is 215 W, up from the 200 W NVIDIA default.

Teardown

Galax's heatsink uses three heatpipes to keep the card cool. The main cooler also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


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