Packaging

The Card

Gainward's RTX 4070 Super Ghost comes with mostly-black color theme that's lightened up by the 3D structure in the main cooler, which reflects light at various angles. On the other side you'll find a plastic backplate that has a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 27 x 13 cm, and it weighs 760 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 41 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere and same as non-Super Ada).

NVIDIA introduced the concept of dual NVDEC and NVENC Codecs with the Ada Lovelace 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. While the RTX 4070 Ti features dual units, the RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 come with only one of them. 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.


All GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics cards use the 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, an adapter cable is included in the box.

Teardown

Gainward lets you remove the main cooler shroud, so the fans can be cleaned and replaced easily, without disturbing the thermal paste on the main cooler.


The thermal solution on the Gainward Ghost has four heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


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