Packaging

The Card

MSI's RTX 4070 Ventus 3X comes with the same silvery look that we've seen on the company's other Ventus GeForce 40 cards. Compared to their GeForce 30 Ventus units, the silver color is more pronounced now. On the other side you'll find a plastic backplate that has a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 31 x 12 cm, and it weighs 816 g.


Installation requires two 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.

Teardown

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


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