Packaging

The Card

Zotac is taking an all-smooth approach with their GeForce RTX 4070 AMP Airo. The curves on their card are almost female-elegant. On the back you get a high-quality metal backplate, the front cooler shroud is made from plastic.


Zotac has integrated a large RGB lighting element along the top edge. The lighting extends to the back of the card, where it adds a little bit of bling on this side of the cooler.


Dimensions of the card are 31.0 x 12.5 cm, and it weighs 1138 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 57 mm.


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 the new 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, which is rated for up to 600 W of power draw. An adapter cable from 2x PCIe 8-pin is included (which is rated for up to 300 W). The card's default power limit is 200 W. Of course the 3x and 4x 8-pin to 16-pin adapter cables from other Ampere cards will work with the RTX 4070, but the card won't need or use that much power.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Zotac AMP Airo uses six heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


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