The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER WINDFORCE MAX OC 16G is a product update featuring some nifty upgrades. The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER WINDFORCE MAX OC 16G, aside from being a mouthful, is the latest addition to GIGABYTE’s WINDFORCE MAX product line featuring increased cooling. This new model also has something folks looking for easier cable management will be highly interested in, a hidden 12V-2×6 connector. Now while this card is one of the longer ones, at 331 mm, the power connector is significantly recessed under the cooler making connecting and hiding much easier than many other graphics cards.
Key Features (per product page):
- Powered by NVIDIA DLSS 3, ultra-efficient Ada Lovelace arch, and full ray tracing
- 4th Generation Tensor Cores: Up to 4x performance with DLSS 3 vs. brute-force rendering
- 3rd Generation RT Cores: Up to 2X ray tracing performance
- Powered by GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti SUPER
- Integrated with 16GB GDDR6X 256bit memory interface
- WINDFORCE Cooling System
- Maximum Heatsink Design
- Dual BIOS
- Protection metal back plate
- Anti-sag bracket
GIGABYTE has not revealed pricing and availability for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER WINDFORCE MAX OC 16G but if the price is right it could be a good option for those seeking high performance with great cooling. As a reminder, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER series features the same GPU as the RTX 4080, just with fewer cores and slower memory. However, this model is factory overclocked. We have a review of the previous WINDFORCE model here.
Specifications (per product page):
- Core Clock: 2655 MHz (Reference card: 2610 MHz)
- CUDA Cores: 8448
- Memory Clock: 21 Gbps
- Memory Size: 16 GB
- Memory Type: GDDR6X
- Memory Bus: 256 bit
- Card Bus: PCI-E 4.0
- Digital max resolution: 7680×4320
- Multi-view: 4
- Card Dimensions: 331 mm (L) x 136 mm (W) x 55.5 mm (H)
- DirectX: 12 Ultimate
- OpenGL: 4.6
- Recommended PSU: 750W
- Power Connectors: 16 pin x1
- Output: DisplayPort 1.4a x3, HDMI 2.1a x1
Discussion (3 replies)
Join Discussion →Seen this a while ago and it looks interesting. Relives some of the stress on the power cable depending on your configuration.
So, what is the purpose of this second connector?
I can't imagine this card will draw enough power in any level of overclock to benefit from it.
Is it just there as a backup in case you burn out the first one? :p
It's not a 2nd connector, 12V-2x6 is 12VHPWR ver 2.0. The big deal is that rather than putting it on the side where it can be mashed against the side panel, or at the end of the card where the same can happen with a drive cage or front of a case, it sits behind the fans in a recessed area.