There are plenty of heatsink fins, but only three heatpipes running through them. ![]() The radiator also carries this same approach of not going hog-wild on cooling capacity. That gives Nvidia's reference card a double advantage: Its 91mm fans have more area, and they include a rim around the outside diameter. More importantly, there's no integrated rim to improve static pressure and airflow. Each fan is 85mm in diameter, so smaller than some cards. PNY uses a dual-fan configuration, as implied by the model name. Even at $19,000 per 4N wafer, that's only $100 per chip (and Nvidia probably pays less than that due to the number of wafers it orders). 294.5 mm^2 on TSMC 4N compared to 392.5 mm^2 on Samsung 8N likely means the AD104 chips do cost more, but Nvidia should still get about 190 chips per wafer. It's faster than the previous generation RTX 3070, but it also comes with a substantially smaller die size. Short-term sales aside, we can't help but feel the RTX 4070 should be selling for a lot less than its MSRP. ![]() It's a safe bet that Nvidia could also drop the prices on all of its GPUs $50 or so without incurring too much pain. The past several Black Fridays and Prime Days, for example, had very few if any noteworthy GPU deals, but that's a straight $50 discount from Newegg on a graphics card that released less than two months ago. That sort of deal does speak volumes about graphics card sales in general. ![]() It's also "while funds last," so you may or may not be able to take advantage of that offer. PNY's card unfortunately isn't part of that deal. The RTX 4070 lands at a $599.99 MSRP, and there are even cards periodically available for less than that - like right now, you can pick up the RTX 4070 from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or Zotac with a $50 instant rebate using code "ZIPDADS" (for Fathers' Day, if that wasn't obvious). The PNY RTX 4070 Verto Dual and Nvidia RTX 4070 Founders Edition have identical specs, since both use the reference clocks. The above specs table shows the ten GPUs we'll be using for this review. Nvidia and AMD GPU Specifications Graphics Card
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