Card Layout and Photos
The Dual model in Asus’s lineup is designed to have the essentials while ignoring some of the features you would find on their higher-end cards. They always have a dual fan design, not a triple fan design like other Asus models and they rarely have lighting and on the few models that they do have lighting it is extremely subtle. The Dual RTX 4060 doesn’t have any lighting with it being on the lower end of the Nvidia product stack. It does have the dual fan design as previously mentioned and with that, it manages to be a little more compact in every dimension, but it isn’t a proper ITX form factor either, that is reserved for Asus’s Phenix cards. To keep things simple Asus has given the Dual RTX 4060 a blacked-out design with black axial fans with just a touch of silver on the centercaps along with grey accents printed onto the fan shroud. The shroud is all plastic and continues the black design. The bottom 2/3 is a textured black finish and the top 1/3 is glossy. That glossy section is also translucent which I hadn’t even noticed at all while handling the card for the last few days until looking at our pictures right now. That smoked translucent plastic gives a peak at the heatpipe behind it. None of that is visible until you get good lighting behind it all, it’s a shame this design doesn’t have just one or two small lights to light those areas up and utilize the translucent design a little more. The plastic also has the Dual logo molded into it in the top left corner but it is hard to see here.
The Dual RTX 4060 has the same dimensions as Asus’s RTX 4060 Ti Dual model. They also have the same styling as well. The card has a length of 227.2 mm long, just long enough to support two full-sized fans. It is 123.24 mm tall which is a little beyond the “standard” PCI height and you can see that with the card extending past the top of the PCI bracket by 19 mm making it 13 mm taller than the standard height. This is shorter than most cards these days, however. Then for thickness, it is 49.6 mm thick making it a 2.5-slot wide card, again, like the height, is wider than the old standards but almost compact when compared to the rest of today's cards other than the lower-end Founders Edition cards, but the RTX 4060 doesn’t have a Founders Edition model.
The dual fan design fits perfectly in the length of the card with room around both fans for the shroud especially the left side where the shroud sits a little higher. Both fans are the same size and design and are 90 mm wide at the center. The design has 11 fan blades which then are all linked together with a solid outer ring to give them more strength. They both blow down into the heatsink below and push air across the heatsink to help keep things cool. On the right side part of that heatsink is open to the back and blows through, the rest pushes the air toward the PCB and out to the ends of the card.
The top edge of the Dual RTX 4060 does continue the plastic fan shroud around from the front of the card but also has openings along the top that expose the heatpipes on the top. The glossy finish wraps around the ends and the rest continues a textured black finish. The glossy section has the Asus brand name on the left and GeForce RTX on the right side. The top edge is also where the power connection is located, it sits at the end of the PCB but 3 inches from the end of the card. The fan shroud also has a larger than expected opening around the power connection which looks like it is there to support two power connections but the Dual RTX 4060 only uses one 8-pin PCIe power connection. The Dual RTX 4060 Ti has the same layout so it isn’t for that design and the 4070 Dual uses a different shroud design altogether so I’m guessing that was designed as a just in case. Sticking with the lower cost theme on the RTX 4060, having the standard PCIe power connection does mean there isn’t a need to get an ATX 3.0 PSU just yet helping keep costs down.
Looking around at the edges of the Dual RTX 4060 gives us a much better idea of the cooling configuration as well. For starters, the cooler design has the standard aluminum heatsink fins but Asus has laid the fins out in a horizontal orientation running from end to end on the card. Most coolers have this facing up and down which keeps the air resistance lower and a majority of this layout often doesn’t cool as well in my experience. It does give us a good look at the heatpipe with one across the top that pulls heat from the GPU over to the PCI bracket end of the card and on the bottom, there are three more than cover the middle and far right end of the card. The heatpipes all sit on top of a heatspreader over the GPU and memory in the center of the PCB. The PCB ends short of the end of the card but the heatsink runs to the end of the fan shroud and is visible on the end of the card where it will blow out some of its heat.
The back of the Dual RTX 4060 does have a full-length metal backplate that offers the PCB some protection and gives the card a cleaner look. The backplate has a textured black finish and has a design printed on it a light grey which includes the Asus brand name and GeForce RTX in a large font. It also has a logo in the center and 2049 which I assume is a date but I have no context on what it stands for. Up on the top edge above the GPU itself, there is a small switch with performance and quiet BIOS options which the backplate has an opening for. The power connection has a large opening as well that goes well belong the power connection clip, down enough to expose some of the black PCB. Then on the end, there is an opening in the area of the cooler beyond the end of the PCB where the heatsink is visible and the right fan can partially blow through the back.
For display connections the rear PCIe bracket has them all lined up along the bottom edge along the PCB. It has three DisplayPort connections as well as one HDMI which is down at the bottom. This is the standard configuration but I do like that the HDMI isn’t just sitting in the middle of the DisplayPorts like in the past. Above that the bracket has rectangular openings across it for ventilation which with the cooling being oriented in a horizontal layout some of the airflow should blow out the back vents.
