Packaging

The Card

Palit's GeForce RTX 4090 GameRock OC has bling. On the back you'll find a high-quality metal backplate, with cutouts for airflow.


In terms of RGB, Palit is going all-out. The front is covered by a crystal-esque structure that is illuminated, and there's an RGB zone at the top edge of the card.


The card is slightly larger than the NVIDIA RTX 4090 Founders Edition.


Dimensions of the card are 33.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1999 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 use the card with just three 8-pins. To the left of the power connector is a cable to sync the graphics card to the ARGB of your motherboard.


This BIOS switch lets you toggle from the default performance BIOS to the quiet BIOS, which runs a more relaxed fan curve.

Teardown

Palit's thermal solution uses a vapor-chamber and eight heatpipes to pick up heat from the graphics core and dissipate it in the heatsink. The main cooler also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM.


Once the backplate is removed, we can see that the PCB is a bit shorter, leaving room for air to flow through the card.


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