Nvidia RTX 4070 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

The RTX 4070 Founders Edition ships in identical packaging to the RTX 4080 or 4090 Founders. The front of the box opens up to reveal the card sitting in the middle of the cardboard surround.

Inside, we find a few support guides and pieces of documentation, along with a dual 8-pin to 16-pin 12VHPWR adapter.

Looking at the graphics card, the overall design is the same as the 4080 or 4090 Founders Edition – the size has just been scaled down dramatically. That means we still find a premium metal build, with two fans operating in a push-pull configuration. Of course, unlike the 120mm fans on the 4080/4090 FE, these are smaller at 90mm, but they are still ‘counter rotating', so the fan on the underside of the card spins anti-clockwise, while the fan on the top spins clockwise.

In terms of the size however, the 4070 really is so much smaller than the 4080 FE. In fact, the 4070 is smaller than the RTX 3070 Ti – it appears to be the same size as the regular RTX 3070, measuring 242mm x 112mm, with a standard dual-slot thickness. For reference, the RTX 4080 FE measures 304 x 147 x 61mm.

The side of the card is fairly plain, with the grey metal frame on show, along with some aluminium heatsink fins. The GeForce RTX branding is also present here towards the end of the card.

The backplate retains the same x-shaped design we are now very familiar with, with the RTX 4070 branding visible on the left-hand side. The top-side 90mm fan takes up almost the entirety of the right-hand side.

Nvidia continues to use the 12VHPWR connector on its Founders Edition models, though for the first time in the 40-series, AIBs have the option to use a single 8-pin instead if they wish. Display outputs consist of 3x DisplayPort 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.1.

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