Packaging

The Card

MSI's Ventus uses a plastic cooler shroud and a metal backplate. The color theme is black with various shades of gray and metallic highlights. The backplate has a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 12.0 cm, and it weighs 1060 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 49 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b.

Standard for all GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell cards is a new display engine that supports three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, each capable of UHBR20; and one HDMI 2.1a. Both interfaces support DSC (display stream compression). With DSC enabled, a single DisplayPort on this card can drive 4K 12-bit HDR at 480 Hz; or 8K 12-bit HDR at up to 165 Hz. The RTX 5070 Ti features an updated media acceleration engine with support for 4:2:2 video formats, AV1 UHQ, and MV-HEVC. There are two independent NVENC and NVDEC units.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which allows a maximum power draw of 600 W, but the board power limit is set much lower of course.


There is no RGB lighting on the Ventus 3X.

Teardown

After removing the backplate, you can separate the fan assembly from the rest of the heatsink. This makes it easy to replace the fans, should you run into problems in a few years—no need to take apart the card and repaste the GPU.


MSI's thermal solution uses four heatpipes and provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry, too.


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