NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti & RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition GPUs Pictured, Compact PCB & Cooling

Sep 16, 2023

Two unreleased NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Founders Edition graphics cards have been pictured which include the RTX 4070 Ti & RTX 4060 Ti.

Starting with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Founders Edition graphics card, we get to see the images of the PCB and cooling. Most of you will remember that the card didn't receive the FE or Founders Edition treatment at launch with the green team focusing on custom variants. This was due to the fact that the RTX 4070 Ti was originally going to be called the RTX 4080 12 GB but the card received lots of backlash for using the 4080 naming scheme while offering a much lower & different performance tier than the RTX 4080 16 GB.

The sudden "Unlaunching" and rebadging of the card meant that NVIDIA had little time to make enough RTX 4070 Ti Founders Edition coolers for the launch which was less than a few weeks away and hence, the company decided to keep it an AIB-only option. But that doesn't mean that NVIDIA didn't produce a Founders Edition model. The card did have a FE PCB and cooling design.

The PCB was very compact with an 8+2+1 phase PCB design and a single 16-pin connector to boot it. The GPU cooler was also shorter than the cooling solution used for the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 cards with a copper base plate and lots of aluminum cooling fins surrounding the shroud with a flow-through fan design incorporating two fans.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Founders Edition Graphics Card (Image Credits: KittyYYuko):

The second card that has been pictured by the same leaker, KittyYYuko, is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card and we get to see the cooler only for this variant. The card reads GeForce RTX 4060 but the leaker is confident that this is the 4060 Ti and we believe that it might be a prototype FE model that is compatible with both the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 graphics cards. The RTX 4060 (Ti) graphics card comes in a dual-slot form factor with a flow-through design. This FE variant looks much shorter than the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 cards and the aluminum die-cast frame is thicker & features a more matte look than the metallic and shiny surface on the high-end cards. It looks like this card will utilize the 16-pin connector too but get a TDP rating close to 200W as disclosed in the earlier rumors.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Specifications "Rumored":

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is expected to utilize the AD106-350-A1 GPU core, a cut-down version of the full AD106 graphics chip, and based on rumors, it should pack 34 SMs or 4352 CUDA cores, an 8 GB GDDR6 memory running at 18 Gbps across a 128-bit bus interface, providing the card with 288 GB/s of bandwidth. There's also 32 MB of L2 cache on board the GPU which is an 8x increase over the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition Graphics Card (Image Credits: KittyYYuko):

Just like the RTX 4070, the RTX 4060 Ti will still make use of the PCIe Gen5 12VHPWR connector since NVIDIA wants to standardize it across the entire lineup. The graphics card will also feature compact PCB designs in both reference and non-reference flavors. The card is expected to run at 160W TGP which would be 20% lower than its predecessor, the RTX 3060 Ti.

News Sources: KittyYYuko 1, KittyYYuko 2