Packaging

The Card

PNY GeForce RTX 4060 Ti XLR8 features a premium design that looks like it's from a segment above. The card looks quite imposing when installed in your case. Three large fans ventilate an aluminium fin-stack that spans the entire length of the card.


There's a subtle RGB lighting element around the middle fan.


Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 12.0 cm, and it weighs 762 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.


PNY opted for a conventional 8-pin PCIe power connector. This configuration is rated for 225 W together with PCIe slot power, which is plenty for the RTX 4060 Ti.

Teardown

Disassembly is pretty straightforward, you undo a set of screws on the backplate, and the cooler comes off. Nothing tricky.


The XLR8 EPIC-X cooling solution by PNY uses two sets of aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by the cooler's three heatpipes. A nickel-plated copper baseplate makes contact with the GPU, memory, and VRM.


PNY is using three heatpipes, two of these bend smartly into the forward fin-stack.


The backplate is made of metal, and has an opening toward the rear end, so some of the airflow from the third fan can go right through.