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The company's designers have given the GeForce 40 STRIX Series graphics card from ASUS an astonishingly fresh look. The main cooler shroud and the backplate are both composed of heavy metal. While the backplate is black with silvery highlights, the front has gradients of blue and red that look wild. As you shift your viewing angle on the card, the colours change subtly.
For this review, we use an AIB partner card. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has 12 GB of GDDR6X memory that works at 21 Gbps offering 504 GB/sec of memory bandwidth. On the following pages, we will go into more detail about the product's features.
The ADA series will replace the Ampere lineup, which will be phased out of the market as these cards are priced similarly but are significantly quicker. Where GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was equipped with 10240 stream/Shader processors, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti kicks in at 7680 shading cores whilst being significantly faster. Temperatures are unlikely to be an issue, and thanks to the backplate and metal anti-bending plate, the card sags just slightly despite weighing little under 2kg.
NVIDIA is the exclusive provider of power adapters included with RTX 40-series graphics cards, whether the Founders Edition or custom-designed boards by partners. The 12VHPWR connector has been under much scrutiny as of late; in some isolated cases, it overheated and melted. It has a lot to do with cable bending too close to the connector, user installation and perhaps poor quality control of these power connectors. We find it extremely hard to get these connectors even hot. There are two fan headers located on the back of the card. These headers allow the linked fans to run at the same speed as the GPU fans, including fan stop. Because of this, basing the speed of the case fans on the temperature of the graphics card is an excellent alternative.
Despite conforming to PCIe Gen 5 specifications, the GeForce RTX 4000 series employs a PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 host interface. GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is equipped with 12 Gigabytes of GDDR6X memory, which operates at 21 Gbps (effective data rate). This provides a substantial amount of volume and bandwidth combined it's 192-bit wide memory bus.
