Packaging

The Card

MSI's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming X looks just like the company's other GeForce 40 Series cards, which makes sense of course. The main color is black with some gray highlights. On the back you'll find a high-quality metal backplate.


MSI has placed some RGB lighting near the middle fan, and there's another RGB element near the top left of the card.


Dimensions of the card are 34.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1616 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).

NVIDIA introduces the concept of dual NVDEC and NVENC Codecs with the Ada architecture. This means there are now 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. 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 the new 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, which is rated for up to 600 W of power draw. An adapter cable from 2x PCIe 8-pin is included. Of course the 4x 8-pin to 16-pin adapter cables from RTX 4090 will also work with the RTX 4070 Ti.


Right next to the power input you'll find the dual BIOS switch, which lets you toggle to the "Gaming" BIOS, which runs a more aggressive fan curve, with lower temperatures but more noise.

Teardown

The main heatsink provides cooling for the GPU chip, memory chips and VRM circuitry. Six heatpipes are installed to transfer heat to the cooling fins.


Under the main cooling assembly, we find a secondary cooling plate that provides cooling for some more VRMs and improves the card's stiffness to protect against sagging.


The backplate is made from metal, it protects the card against damage during installation and handling.