Packaging

The Card

The MSI GeForce 40 Suprim Series retains most of the design elements and color theme of their GeForce 30 offerings. The dominant color is metal gray in various shades. On the back you'll find a high-quality metal backplate.


The Suprim X is considerably bigger than the NVIDIA Founders Edition.


Dimensions of the card are 34.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 2441 g.


Installation requires four slots in your system.


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

NVIDIA introduced the concept of dual NVDEC and NVENC Codecs with the Ada 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. 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 4x PCIe 8-pin is included, you can also run the card with just three 8-pins.


This dual BIOS switch lets you toggle between the default "silent" BIOS and a "gaming" BIOS with a more aggressive fan curve.

Teardown

The main heatsink provides cooling for the memory GPU, memory chips and VRM circuitry. It uses a large vapor-chamber base with ten heatpipes (the 10th heatpipe goes in the other direction and wraps around).


MSI has installed a metal reinforcement brace on their card to protect against sagging.


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