Asus Launches First Cable-Much less GPU, RTX 4070 BTF Debuts in Asia

Asus has introduced a brand new RTX 4070 graphics card and a few B760 motherboards that includes hidden energy connectors that may launch on Sept. 15, based on IT Residence. The brand new merchandise embrace the Tianxuan TX Gaming RTX 4070 graphics card, the primary cable-less GPU to hit the market, and two new B760 motherboards. These new elements will probably be restricted to the Asian market, no less than for now. 

We first realized the brand new GPUs had been in manufacturing a couple of months in the past. The brand new merchandise take inspiration from Asus’ new “Again-to-Future” (BTF) product stack that’s designed to enhance the aesthetic attraction of PC elements by hiding or changing all seen energy connectors that could be current in a system. For motherboards, this contains redirecting the 24-pin and EPS energy connectors to the rear of the PCB, permitting all energy provide cables to be managed from the rear of the case alone.

For graphics playing cards, PCIe supplemental energy connectors have been eliminated solely in favor of a customized HPCE energy connector that attracts energy straight from the motherboard itself. By extension, this additionally implies that BTF-branded motherboards are outfitted with the identical connector, however not all boards will apparently help the HPCE connector particularly. As an example, Asus’ TUF Gaming Z790 idea motherboard options the connector, however its B760M-BTF WIFI board doesn’t.

Instances are additionally combined into the BTF collection, resulting from the truth that further house behind the motherboard tray is required to exist in order that energy provide cables have sufficient room to be plugged into the rear energy connectors on a BTF motherboard. For now, Asus has two BTF circumstances on its product web page: the Asus A21 and the TUF Gaming GT502 Idea Case.

The Tianxuan TX Gaming B760-BTF WiFi motherboard and the Tianxuan RTX 4070 graphics card are anime-themed. The TUF Gaming B760M-BTF WiFi Shadowraider board incorporates a black design, whereas the Tianxuan TX Gaming B760-BTF WiFi board is available in a white theme that includes cyan accents. Each boards provide 12+1 energy supply techniques, and PCIe Gen 5 help.

The Tianxuan RTX 4070 takes on the identical look because the TX board, that includes a white triple-fan cooling resolution with cyan accents. Each B760 boards and the 4070 characteristic an HPCE energy connector, permitting the RTX 4070 to attract energy immediately from the motherboard with out a bodily PCIe supplementary energy cable. Asus additionally introduced RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 variants with the identical triple-fan cooling resolution, however these lower-end playing cards don’t characteristic the HPCE energy connector.