**The Unboxing and Teardown of a New GPU**

As we begin our unboxing and teardown of this new GPU, it's clear that Nvidia has made some significant design decisions with this particular model. The first thing to notice is that the board has been swapped out for modules that are higher in density. This suggests that either the density increase was necessary or that more modules have been added to the board to compensate for a lack of density elsewhere.

The board itself appears to be maxed out, which may indicate that Nvidia has chosen to prioritize power delivery over future upgrades. The placement of unpopulated headers on the bottom of the board is also curious, as it's unclear what purpose they serve or where they might be used in the future. For now, they seem to be a leftover from a design decision that didn't quite pan out.

Moving on to the cooler, it's clear that Nvidia has opted for a straightforward design approach. The cooling solution consists of just a copper cold plate, with no vapor chamber in sight. This is an interesting choice, as standard designs typically include a vapor chamber or other forms of advanced heat management. However, the use of a simple copper cold plate should still provide adequate cooling performance.

A closer look at the heat pipes reveals that there are four of them in total, which is a decent amount for a small design like this. The heat pipe size appears to be around sixes, although the manufacturer's marketing materials claim it's an eight. Regardless, the presence of multiple heat pipes suggests that Nvidia has made an effort to ensure good thermal contact with key components.

One notable feature of the cooling solution is the use of a lowered aluminum plate to make contact with the MOSFETs and other components. This design choice should help to reduce thermal resistance and improve overall cooling performance. Additionally, there are two thermal pads that connect to these components, which should provide adequate heat dissipation.

As we examine the PCB itself, it's clear that Nvidia has chosen a compact design approach. The shortest point of the board is approximately 140mm across, with the longest dimension being around 153mm plus an additional 15-20mm. This suggests that the board is relatively small and should fit easily into most cases.

Overall, the teardown process was surprisingly straightforward, thanks to Nvidia's design choices. Removing just 10-14 screws was all it took to disassemble the entire unit, although replacing the fans would require a few more screws. The fans themselves appear to be of decent quality, and their placement suggests that they should provide adequate cooling performance.

Despite some minor complaints about the socket design, Nvidia's defense for this choice is understandable - reducing vibrational concerns like rattle or vibration between the outer shell and inner heat sink can make for a more comfortable user experience. Additionally, from a manufacturing perspective, this design may be easier to produce than alternative options.

The final piece of information regarding the cooler's performance is that it has already been tested and the results are currently being analyzed. As always, we'll provide an in-depth review of the cooling solution once the data is available. In the meantime, the thermals appear to be working well, with no major complaints reported so far.

**Conclusion**

The unboxing and teardown process for this new GPU was a straightforward experience, thanks to Nvidia's design choices. The use of higher-density modules, a copper cold plate, and multiple heat pipes should provide adequate cooling performance, even if it doesn't blow the competition out of the water. As always, we'll continue to monitor the situation and provide an in-depth review once the data is available. In the meantime, we'll be over here, waiting for more information about this GPU's performance and capabilities.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone so the RTX 4060 TI came out today and we should already have a review on the channel so check that out if you want to see all the performance numbers thermals all that stuff in this video though we're just going to be tearing it down so this is a look at the build quality the assembly overall the uh hopefully adequacy of the cooler and we're gonna see how it looks internally how Nvidia is doing with their Founders Edition design it's going to be pretty straightforward so let's get started before that this video is brought to you by Squarespace we use Squarespace for our own GN store and juggle complex multi-piece orders all the time with it Squarespace makes it fast for us to roll out new products with detailed Pages full of galleries videos and descriptors it's also useful for your own resume sites for a photographer or projects portfolios or for starting your new small business idea there's never been a better time to try and start your new business than right now and we can vouch that Squarespace makes it easy visit squarespace.com Gamers Nexus to get 10 off your first purchase with Squarespace we're going to start with an external visual walk around before tearing it apart so it is the 4060 TI big major controversy here they changed the font between the 30 and the 40 series and uh I mean I guess I've seen enough personally I I can't even buy it if they're not using the old font other than that Nvidia is not getting away from this 12 volt high power connector so they're still doing a total high power even though it's a single eight pin board Partners can and probably will just use the single eight pin uh but Nvidia here has chosen to go with a 12 volt high power 2 8 Pin or you could do Native for the finstack design this is pretty standard now for nvidia's Founders edition cards so they're going with a standard height pcie it is a proper two slot card so no extra thickness there two fan so this is a pole the other one is a push but this one pulls straight through and what has now become a standardized flow through design for a lot of Nvidia cards uh even the the partner models for the rest of it there's really not a lot different here to talk about so the shell is still this like x-frame they call it design uh so metal shell metal backplate hopefully with some thermal pads under it this just pops off they hide all the screws these days because because apparently screws and functionality are unsightly and companies can't show them anymore and then on the front side large fin stack here it's going to be heat pipes within it we're going to look for a vapor chamber I kind of doubt they're going to have one because it seems unnecessary at this power Target and as a reminder this card the MSRP is 400 and it's 500 for the one with 16 gigabytes of memories all right so the teardown on these is pretty straightforward so far anyway once you know the trick there's a slot back here I'll show you that Notch that's where you can get something flat Flathead kind of works something narrower than this would be better and then you pop off the panel okay pretty straightforward no direct thermal pad contact here so this is like the pseudo this is The Deco plate it is only for decoration but I mean purely technically speaking perhaps this is irrelevant ultimately at this power level purely technically sinking into this back plate but not into this one means you are kind of limiting your use of a great natural conductor of metal and uh trapping it within the walls here but if it's low enough uh Power density then it may not matter and we'll see that in our review so they're using Torx screws these are either five or six we'll take those apart shortly and then for is this just these look like they're just magnets yeah those are just magnets and I mean we're already at this fan but you would not be able to replace the fan yet you would still have to take this apart if you wanted to replace the fan because the cable is submerged so let me grab a Torx so these are TR these are Torx 6 which we do have these in our tool kit right now I'm working on top of the solder mat this is on store.gamersaccess.net if you want to grab one of these These are the insulated soldering mats with the extreme heat resistance but you could also buy the underlying mod mat down here if you want a an anti-static conductive surface with a bunch of printed diagrams on it for your PC Building both of them are pretty large mats though which is great for bigger projects oh that's interesting this oh no nevermind it's not interesting I thought I thought this was separating from the rest I take it back so some thermal pads back here they're using those sort of canvassy pads that we've shown in the past it's almost got that consistency of the old Fuji Bali pads this is the vrm uh on the opposite side here so they are conducting through a pad into the plate for the vrm this looks like where the chokes likely are there's nothing connected to the back of the memory or the back of the GPU core but they do have something where is that this pad is positioned at the back side it looks like of the 16 pin or the 12 plus 4 pin connector which is right here so I think that's where that one's contact and it might be just below it on that five milliohm uh shunt resistor but either way that's the layout for this so far so we've got two cables to disconnect this one and this one it was like a speed run taken apart in Nvidia GPU we've done enough of these now it's the only way to keep it fresh because they are sticking to the same design it's the same that is also torque six we're gonna go opposing Corners if you ever take one of these apart any GPU to repaste or something we advise reducing the tension one by one hit them two or three times each and uh that helps you prevent the screw from flying across the room also reduces the amount of force your applying to the PCB on the core at any one point screws we have two one two six ten not bad sorry 10 screws to get the card mostly apart which is a lot better than Nvidia used to be they used to be on the 60s or 70s okay so we're trapped by the i o plate but it is able to disconnect already it works those are Torx 9. so there's four of these they hold the i o plate in place and there's probably a deco fin under it I'm sure Malcolm at Nvidia is laughing now because uh I think he jokingly called it a deco fin stack and I said oh like Deco like art deco and he said uh sure and now it has become a deco fin yep check that out so this uh there's a basically not real Finn stack it's just a hide what I assume Nvidia thinks is an unsightly look into the actual cooling solution because this could come out with two screws good news is it doesn't look like it has to come out because I think this board's already loose yep let me get this pad Salvage though all right here we go this is looking an awful lot like the uh the 40 70. very tiny die there is once again the mysterious number this we think is out of the factory QC talked to some people after the last one and it sounds like this is just part tracking so the thermal pads that's kind of tight tolerance I don't know they're that's pretty on top of the GPU it looks like this one their heights are fine in the past I've seen cards where the GPU will run hot because the memory starts to sit on top of the actual substrate that's the green part and the problem it caused on the old card I'm thinking of is it created a big air gap where there was no connection to the cooler so they're okay here but it is awfully closed and I guess we'll go ahead and wipe that GPU I'll take a quick measurement of what we can see of the die as well funny to not see the full product naming on it so there's the exposed die I take a measurement now okay quick die size measurement so technically speaking we're measuring at the structural silicon it's not perfect but looks like we're at 13 millimeters this direction 15.5 that direction very tiny die uh yeah I mean they're trying to go smaller with the silicones to the extent they can because it's significantly cheaper at every stage you start sacrificing things like the frame buffer uh bus width as we talked about in the news video and they're trying to compensate that for cash presumably they think that's the better trade-off the other option is to go bigger but then cost is higher and if they don't want to cut into their massive margins they've had the last few years that would be passed on to the consumer so so what I'm doing now is I'm comparing this PCB to the 4070 PCB from our previous teardown they look very similar in design so this is a four phase just right here on the left we've got four fats over here ignoring this this vrm down here and on the 4070 it looks like we had five on the left sides they were populating these two locations and this location they were skipping the fourth they're populating the fifth skipping the six populating the seventh and then they actually had two uh unpopulated locations down here and then for the PCB actually looks like it's a little bit different so it uh just from looking at it in our previous footage they're not maybe not exactly the same but they're close in size at least if if not uh nearly identical in most aspects the rest of the vrm layout so we have nothing on the right side other than some memory vrms here and then on the 4070 they ran three memory modules on the bottom here and they had three memory modules on the right side and there were two unpopulated locations up top which is kind of interesting but on this one it's just four memory modules no unpopulated locations so dreams of adding modules to the 4060 TI eight gigabyte turned into a 46 DTI uh 16 gigabyte at this point are dashed you would you wouldn't be able to unless you pulled these and swapped them for modules that are are higher in density I guess unless it's got to be a density increase unless they're putting more modules on it because this one is is maxed out so the board is either different or the density is higher for the 16 gigabyte version that bother unpopulated headers down here so we've got two four pin headers I'm not sure what their uh their plan was for that one or if they're using it elsewhere I guess theoretically that could be a fan or it could be an RGB connector type of thing but either way they're not used on this let's look at the cooler now so on the cooling solution they've gone with just a copper cold plate there's no Vapor chamber yeah that's just a cold plate and standard designs are copper cold plate with heat pipes although you can see the Milling marks can't really feel them I don't think we'll bother measuring flatness this cooler is low enough and that's kind of irrelevant but for the heat pipes there's one two three I can see four heat pipes on this side that they might be hiding a fifth one it looks like in here unless that connects the other two but I can't tell without a further deconstruction of this that might be destructive to do yes heat pipe size looks like maybe sixes either six or eight foreign it's right in the middle marketing calls it an eight uh so that's the heat pipes four of them in there for thermal pad coverage so they're using this sort of lowered aluminum plate to contact with the mosfets and they've got two pads that are each connecting with two fats that's going to be over here so these these two mosfets and these two mosfets connect to those two pads so they do have coverage of them and then let's see this thermal pad is contacting these three components and then this thermal pad is contacting this mosfet down here so in terms of the cooler they're trying to pack as much as they can into a two slot this is where the flow through design maybe is is going to lose some ground versus some of the more standard partner Solutions Riley's is full flow through I think typically at this uh smaller size although Nvidia has certainly gotten a lot more competitive and it's Fe cooler designs the partners still have some strengths it's just a matter of whether they deploy them properly or whether they are busy releasing the next clown car of GPU designs as for the rest of this so size of the PCB let's just take some measurements for people who might want to maybe do a water blocked or a pseudo DIY blocked design I'll take the shortest Point first shortest is approximately 140 millimeters across longest the calipers aren't long enough it's like 153 plus 15 or so it's about 168 millimeters so I think good sizing but the 40 70 would uh would give you more power in a similar form factor so so that's it for the teardown this one really straightforward it's I think I said this last time it's always weird when the product is so simple to take apart because it's kind of like I don't know we have let's see 10 14 screws that we took out of this thing very easy to work on uh the fans you would have to take a few more out to replace them of course but overall I don't really have any complaints about the way this is assembled from if Nvidia wants it to look this way then the way they've assembled it seems actually pretty reasonable for the most part still not a big fan of how this sockets in but they their defense for it was uh I think it was to reduce some of the vibrational concerns like rattle potentially between the outer shell and the inner the heat sink it's also easier from a manufacturing perspective I'm sure but overall no real complaints the cooling solution we'll talk about its efficacy in the review so as I'm filming this I actually don't know how it did but we've already tested it and taken the data and you all will know before me even though when I post the video I'll know so I'll know before you but it's like this version of me and not that version so anyway point is The Thermals are in the review no major complaints the board's small not worth water cooling of course uh even to get it smaller because it's not enough power density you do better off waiting for a partner to make some super small design for ITI it's definitely possible to do probably a decent single fan design even it has to be a little thicker or something but that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more go to store.amersaccess.net to grab one of the mats that we worked on today or this shirt because these are running out the sales will be closed pretty soon so thank you for watching see you all next timehey everyone so the RTX 4060 TI came out today and we should already have a review on the channel so check that out if you want to see all the performance numbers thermals all that stuff in this video though we're just going to be tearing it down so this is a look at the build quality the assembly overall the uh hopefully adequacy of the cooler and we're gonna see how it looks internally how Nvidia is doing with their Founders Edition design it's going to be pretty straightforward so let's get started before that this video is brought to you by Squarespace we use Squarespace for our own GN store and juggle complex multi-piece orders all the time with it Squarespace makes it fast for us to roll out new products with detailed Pages full of galleries videos and descriptors it's also useful for your own resume sites for a photographer or projects portfolios or for starting your new small business idea there's never been a better time to try and start your new business than right now and we can vouch that Squarespace makes it easy visit squarespace.com Gamers Nexus to get 10 off your first purchase with Squarespace we're going to start with an external visual walk around before tearing it apart so it is the 4060 TI big major controversy here they changed the font between the 30 and the 40 series and uh I mean I guess I've seen enough personally I I can't even buy it if they're not using the old font other than that Nvidia is not getting away from this 12 volt high power connector so they're still doing a total high power even though it's a single eight pin board Partners can and probably will just use the single eight pin uh but Nvidia here has chosen to go with a 12 volt high power 2 8 Pin or you could do Native for the finstack design this is pretty standard now for nvidia's Founders edition cards so they're going with a standard height pcie it is a proper two slot card so no extra thickness there two fan so this is a pole the other one is a push but this one pulls straight through and what has now become a standardized flow through design for a lot of Nvidia cards uh even the the partner models for the rest of it there's really not a lot different here to talk about so the shell is still this like x-frame they call it design uh so metal shell metal backplate hopefully with some thermal pads under it this just pops off they hide all the screws these days because because apparently screws and functionality are unsightly and companies can't show them anymore and then on the front side large fin stack here it's going to be heat pipes within it we're going to look for a vapor chamber I kind of doubt they're going to have one because it seems unnecessary at this power Target and as a reminder this card the MSRP is 400 and it's 500 for the one with 16 gigabytes of memories all right so the teardown on these is pretty straightforward so far anyway once you know the trick there's a slot back here I'll show you that Notch that's where you can get something flat Flathead kind of works something narrower than this would be better and then you pop off the panel okay pretty straightforward no direct thermal pad contact here so this is like the pseudo this is The Deco plate it is only for decoration but I mean purely technically speaking perhaps this is irrelevant ultimately at this power level purely technically sinking into this back plate but not into this one means you are kind of limiting your use of a great natural conductor of metal and uh trapping it within the walls here but if it's low enough uh Power density then it may not matter and we'll see that in our review so they're using Torx screws these are either five or six we'll take those apart shortly and then for is this just these look like they're just magnets yeah those are just magnets and I mean we're already at this fan but you would not be able to replace the fan yet you would still have to take this apart if you wanted to replace the fan because the cable is submerged so let me grab a Torx so these are TR these are Torx 6 which we do have these in our tool kit right now I'm working on top of the solder mat this is on store.gamersaccess.net if you want to grab one of these These are the insulated soldering mats with the extreme heat resistance but you could also buy the underlying mod mat down here if you want a an anti-static conductive surface with a bunch of printed diagrams on it for your PC Building both of them are pretty large mats though which is great for bigger projects oh that's interesting this oh no nevermind it's not interesting I thought I thought this was separating from the rest I take it back so some thermal pads back here they're using those sort of canvassy pads that we've shown in the past it's almost got that consistency of the old Fuji Bali pads this is the vrm uh on the opposite side here so they are conducting through a pad into the plate for the vrm this looks like where the chokes likely are there's nothing connected to the back of the memory or the back of the GPU core but they do have something where is that this pad is positioned at the back side it looks like of the 16 pin or the 12 plus 4 pin connector which is right here so I think that's where that one's contact and it might be just below it on that five milliohm uh shunt resistor but either way that's the layout for this so far so we've got two cables to disconnect this one and this one it was like a speed run taken apart in Nvidia GPU we've done enough of these now it's the only way to keep it fresh because they are sticking to the same design it's the same that is also torque six we're gonna go opposing Corners if you ever take one of these apart any GPU to repaste or something we advise reducing the tension one by one hit them two or three times each and uh that helps you prevent the screw from flying across the room also reduces the amount of force your applying to the PCB on the core at any one point screws we have two one two six ten not bad sorry 10 screws to get the card mostly apart which is a lot better than Nvidia used to be they used to be on the 60s or 70s okay so we're trapped by the i o plate but it is able to disconnect already it works those are Torx 9. so there's four of these they hold the i o plate in place and there's probably a deco fin under it I'm sure Malcolm at Nvidia is laughing now because uh I think he jokingly called it a deco fin stack and I said oh like Deco like art deco and he said uh sure and now it has become a deco fin yep check that out so this uh there's a basically not real Finn stack it's just a hide what I assume Nvidia thinks is an unsightly look into the actual cooling solution because this could come out with two screws good news is it doesn't look like it has to come out because I think this board's already loose yep let me get this pad Salvage though all right here we go this is looking an awful lot like the uh the 40 70. very tiny die there is once again the mysterious number this we think is out of the factory QC talked to some people after the last one and it sounds like this is just part tracking so the thermal pads that's kind of tight tolerance I don't know they're that's pretty on top of the GPU it looks like this one their heights are fine in the past I've seen cards where the GPU will run hot because the memory starts to sit on top of the actual substrate that's the green part and the problem it caused on the old card I'm thinking of is it created a big air gap where there was no connection to the cooler so they're okay here but it is awfully closed and I guess we'll go ahead and wipe that GPU I'll take a quick measurement of what we can see of the die as well funny to not see the full product naming on it so there's the exposed die I take a measurement now okay quick die size measurement so technically speaking we're measuring at the structural silicon it's not perfect but looks like we're at 13 millimeters this direction 15.5 that direction very tiny die uh yeah I mean they're trying to go smaller with the silicones to the extent they can because it's significantly cheaper at every stage you start sacrificing things like the frame buffer uh bus width as we talked about in the news video and they're trying to compensate that for cash presumably they think that's the better trade-off the other option is to go bigger but then cost is higher and if they don't want to cut into their massive margins they've had the last few years that would be passed on to the consumer so so what I'm doing now is I'm comparing this PCB to the 4070 PCB from our previous teardown they look very similar in design so this is a four phase just right here on the left we've got four fats over here ignoring this this vrm down here and on the 4070 it looks like we had five on the left sides they were populating these two locations and this location they were skipping the fourth they're populating the fifth skipping the six populating the seventh and then they actually had two uh unpopulated locations down here and then for the PCB actually looks like it's a little bit different so it uh just from looking at it in our previous footage they're not maybe not exactly the same but they're close in size at least if if not uh nearly identical in most aspects the rest of the vrm layout so we have nothing on the right side other than some memory vrms here and then on the 4070 they ran three memory modules on the bottom here and they had three memory modules on the right side and there were two unpopulated locations up top which is kind of interesting but on this one it's just four memory modules no unpopulated locations so dreams of adding modules to the 4060 TI eight gigabyte turned into a 46 DTI uh 16 gigabyte at this point are dashed you would you wouldn't be able to unless you pulled these and swapped them for modules that are are higher in density I guess unless it's got to be a density increase unless they're putting more modules on it because this one is is maxed out so the board is either different or the density is higher for the 16 gigabyte version that bother unpopulated headers down here so we've got two four pin headers I'm not sure what their uh their plan was for that one or if they're using it elsewhere I guess theoretically that could be a fan or it could be an RGB connector type of thing but either way they're not used on this let's look at the cooler now so on the cooling solution they've gone with just a copper cold plate there's no Vapor chamber yeah that's just a cold plate and standard designs are copper cold plate with heat pipes although you can see the Milling marks can't really feel them I don't think we'll bother measuring flatness this cooler is low enough and that's kind of irrelevant but for the heat pipes there's one two three I can see four heat pipes on this side that they might be hiding a fifth one it looks like in here unless that connects the other two but I can't tell without a further deconstruction of this that might be destructive to do yes heat pipe size looks like maybe sixes either six or eight foreign it's right in the middle marketing calls it an eight uh so that's the heat pipes four of them in there for thermal pad coverage so they're using this sort of lowered aluminum plate to contact with the mosfets and they've got two pads that are each connecting with two fats that's going to be over here so these these two mosfets and these two mosfets connect to those two pads so they do have coverage of them and then let's see this thermal pad is contacting these three components and then this thermal pad is contacting this mosfet down here so in terms of the cooler they're trying to pack as much as they can into a two slot this is where the flow through design maybe is is going to lose some ground versus some of the more standard partner Solutions Riley's is full flow through I think typically at this uh smaller size although Nvidia has certainly gotten a lot more competitive and it's Fe cooler designs the partners still have some strengths it's just a matter of whether they deploy them properly or whether they are busy releasing the next clown car of GPU designs as for the rest of this so size of the PCB let's just take some measurements for people who might want to maybe do a water blocked or a pseudo DIY blocked design I'll take the shortest Point first shortest is approximately 140 millimeters across longest the calipers aren't long enough it's like 153 plus 15 or so it's about 168 millimeters so I think good sizing but the 40 70 would uh would give you more power in a similar form factor so so that's it for the teardown this one really straightforward it's I think I said this last time it's always weird when the product is so simple to take apart because it's kind of like I don't know we have let's see 10 14 screws that we took out of this thing very easy to work on uh the fans you would have to take a few more out to replace them of course but overall I don't really have any complaints about the way this is assembled from if Nvidia wants it to look this way then the way they've assembled it seems actually pretty reasonable for the most part still not a big fan of how this sockets in but they their defense for it was uh I think it was to reduce some of the vibrational concerns like rattle potentially between the outer shell and the inner the heat sink it's also easier from a manufacturing perspective I'm sure but overall no real complaints the cooling solution we'll talk about its efficacy in the review so as I'm filming this I actually don't know how it did but we've already tested it and taken the data and you all will know before me even though when I post the video I'll know so I'll know before you but it's like this version of me and not that version so anyway point is The Thermals are in the review no major complaints the board's small not worth water cooling of course uh even to get it smaller because it's not enough power density you do better off waiting for a partner to make some super small design for ITI it's definitely possible to do probably a decent single fan design even it has to be a little thicker or something but that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more go to store.amersaccess.net to grab one of the mats that we worked on today or this shirt because these are running out the sales will be closed pretty soon so thank you for watching see you all next time\n"