Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition Graphics Card Review

A Closer Look

The Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition looks much like previous Founders Editions, albeit the dimensions are different and it’s got a new murdered-out look with its all-black fan, heatsink, shroud and trim.

Dropping the silver trim is a bold choice, but I do think it makes the card look more menacing and cool.

The card is pretty compact too, a far cry from the behemoth RTX 4090 cards, so it should easily fit in many micro-ATX systems and smaller cases with ease.

It still features that stunning through-body cooling design though, with an oversized axial fan that takes up the entire width of the card.

The other half is enclosed, but features an embossed RTX logo.

Down the side of the GPU there is the newer 12VHPWR connector embedded into the side of some exposed heatsink fins.

While on the other side of the GPU, there is again another fan, so one at the back and one at the front, which will work to push air through the GPU and exhaust out of all the open edges of the card and that densely packed heatsink.

The heatsink design is really cool though, with angled fins that are going to push the airflow towards the outsides of the card, rather than just straight fins, which just looks really cool too.

There’s a good amount of exhaust at the rear of the card too, which has become less common in GPU design. Here you will also find three DisplayPort outputs, as well as a single HDMI, making it ideal for multi-monitor configurations.

Tearing down this card shows us that the PCB is actually quite modest, with the bulk of the card design really just being heatsink and the two fans.

You can even see that the PCB is curved, allowing even more room for the larger fan at the back. There are six VRAM chips here too, giving the card its 12GB total, but I can see there is room for up to two more as this PCB is capable of doing up to 16GB.

There’s a good quality VRM configuration here too, with the chokes and capacitors all to one side so they’re easily covered by the large heatsink.

OF course, all of this is fed from a single power connector, with the 12VHPWR able to deliver up to 600W, which is far beyond what’s needed for this chipset anyway.

The back of the card is pretty neat and tidy, not a whole lot going on here.

What is really cool is that a lot of the card snaps together with clips and magnets, so from the outside, you can’t actually see the screws and fittings, making it look much cleaner than many of the rival cards.

There are thermal pads on the metal covers, helping the backplate provide additional cooling rather than just boosting the aesthetics.

The heatsinks its self it really densely packed, with integrated heatpipes bridging the VRM cooler, GPU copper cold plate and the rear fan sections into a single unit.

There’s good quality thermal compound on the VRAM, VRM and GPU too.