Packaging
The Card
The PNY RTX 4060 Ti Verto comes with a mostly-black color theme that has some white highlights on it from the PNY and GeForce logos. There's a cutout for air to flow through, the main cooler shroud is made from plastic while the backplate is made of metal.
Dimensions of the card are 24.5 x 11.5 cm, and it weighs 551 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
PNY's heatsink uses two heatpipes to keep the card cool. The main cooler also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.
The metal backplate protects the card against damage during installation and handling.