MSI is preparing a new stealthy black version of its GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Ventus 3X graphics card which adopts NVIDIA's top AD102 GPU.
MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Ventus 3X Black Graphics Card Reportedly Comes Equipped With Top NVIDIA AD102 GPU & Stealthy Cooler
As discovered by @wxnod, MSI seems to be preparing a new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER graphics card variant in the Ventus 3X Black flavor. This fully custom model adopts a stealthy black cooler compared to the silver and black colors we have seen in the previous designs.
Starting with the details, the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Ventus 3X Black graphics card comes packed with 8448 CUDA cores, a 16 GB GDDR6X VRAM, and a 256-bit bus interface running at 21.0 Gbps speeds for up to 672 GB/s bandwidth. The graphics card has a rated TDP that's 295W or 10W higher than the reference design and more interestingly, it reportedly packs the AD102-225-A1 GPU die. NVIDIA and its AIB partners are known to reuse other GPU dies that don't meet the specs for higher-end GPUs and in this case, you are looking at less than half the cores enabled on the AD102 GPU.
In terms of design, the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Ventus 3X Black graphics card features a triple-fan cooler in a triple-slot design. The fans are based on MSI's Torx Fan 4.0 design and there's a large heatsink that is equipped with a solid baseplate for the GPU and Core Pipe heatsink to dissipate heat from the GPU to the aluminum fins. The graphics card also comes with a nice black and silver metal backplate. A single 12V-2x6 power connector provides power. The card is also an OC design and runs at up to 2655 MHz, a 45 MHz boost over the reference model.
The card measures 322x136x62mm so it's quite big just like the higher-end RTX 4080 SUPER & RTX 4090 designs while weighing 1464 grams. There are four display outputs which include 3 DP and a single HDMI port. There's no word on the pricing but MSI's Ventus variants usually stick close to the MSRP which is $799 US in the case of the 4070 Ti SUPER. The target market is to attract PC builders who are going for a stealthy black look and feel.
