Packaging

The Card

Gigabyte's RTX 4070 Aorus Master looks more like the cinder block of a RTX 4090 than a 4070. The card's color theme is visually appealing, thanks to a mix of various shades of gray. On the back you get a metal backplate with a large cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 34.5 x 15.5 cm, and it weighs 1692 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 71 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.


Right next the power input is a dual BIOS switch, which lets you switch to a secondary "quiet" BIOS, which runs at a more relaxed fan curve.


This round connector on the back can be used to supply power to the graphics card's RGB illumination, so that it works when the system is powered off or the card is not installed.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Aorus Master has nine 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.