Packaging

The Card

The PNY RTX 4070 XLR8 follows the design theme of the company's other GeForce 40 cards. On the other side you'll find a metal backplate that has a cutout for air to flow through.


PNY has added an RGB lighting zone around the middle fan, and a second area is illuminated, the XLR8 logo near the top.


Dimensions of the card are 30 x 12 cm, and it weighs 850 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 four 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.