This slimline graphics card from MSI is an anime lover’s dream

MSI may not have sealed an Evangelion licensing deal like Asus, however it’s nonetheless trying to money in on the rising anime gaming PC market. The element maker has simply unveiled a brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous graphics card with an anime-style backplate. The brand new MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous Gaming X Slim MLG additionally has a skinny footprint, with a width of simply 46mm, enabling it to squeeze into tight areas, resembling some mini-ITX instances.

The brand new Nvidia mid-range GPU is because of launch this week, and the GeForce RTX 4070 Super is trying like a robust contender for our best graphics card information. In the meantime, the brand new MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous Gaming X Slim MLG steps away from the standard black, white, and grey graphics card designs, with loads of purple accents and an anime backplate.

The latter is magnetically hooked up and could be simply eliminated when you’d slightly not have an anime dragon nymph trying up at you out of your case window (which is completely comprehensible). The cardboard itself appears like it should match right into a dual-slot house in a case, with only a tiny little bit of the cooler overhanging the IO backplate.

Regardless of its slender width, although, it’s nonetheless fairly a big card for a mini PC case, measuring 307mm lengthy. A help bracket can also be bundled to cease it from sagging, although this may, in fact, necessitate extra enlargement slot brackets.

In the meantime, the cooler options three MSI Torx Fan 5 spinners, which tilt the blades by 22 levels to take care of high-pressure airflow, which MSI says the cardboard will nonetheless handle when the followers are operating at slower speeds. In keeping with MSI, this methodology “will increase airflow by 23% in comparison with axial followers.”

This MSI card additionally runs a good bit faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous reference specs, growing the increase clock velocity from 2,475MHz to 2,640MHz – a 165MHz improve. As with many trendy graphics card coolers, the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous Gaming X Slim will even cease its followers from operating utterly when the GPU is at a low sufficient temperature threshold.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Tremendous is because of be launched on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, and we’ll be posting our full evaluation with benchmarks tomorrow.