Card Layout and Photos
The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition shares a similar card design with the ZOTAC GAMING RTX 4070 Amp Airo that I recently took a look at only this is a dual fan design and being the white edition is completely white with a few silver accents. The shroud design goes completely away from the angular design that most “gaming” cards have these days and has more curves to it including curves in the shroud above and below each fan and on the ends as well.
The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is relatively compact at a length of 221.4 mm or 8.7 inches. For reference, the Asus Dual 4060 that I took a look at yesterday was 227.2, so ZOTAC GAMING has this card a little shorter. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is 122.7 mm tall or 4.8 inches tall which is again a hair smaller than the Dual which was 123.24 mm tall. Then for thickness, the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is 43.1 mm thick which they have in the specifications as being a 2-slot design but that is pushing it, I would consider it to be closer to 2.1 or 2.2 slot, it is thinner than the Dual from yesterday however which was 49.6 mm thick.
The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition has a dual fan design as the Twin Edge in the model name indicates. Both fans are the same size and design. They are officially 90mm fans which is the opening size and 87mm from tip to tip. They have 11 blades and are an axial design, like most aftermarket cards, that blow down into the heatsink below it. The fans have a machined aluminum center cap, one says ZOTAC and the other has the ZOTAC GAMING logo on it. It's hardly visible but the blades do have a striped design on them that is printed on which gives them a similar look to some of the grooved or wavy fans that some other designs use. The shroud on the fan side does have the same grooved design in the center that I saw on the RTX 4070 Amp Airo, it is almost like a tribal design and is unique compared to what any other card has but goes with the slightly curvy shroud shape.
The top edge of the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition has a silver rippled accent on the fan shroud on the left side. This has the ZOTAC GAMING logo cut into it which is hard to even see when not lit up but when the card is on this is backlit in white. Then on the right side, they have GeForce RTX printed on the white in silver to match the silver on the other side of the top edge. The top also has the power connection which is at the end of the PCB 2/3 along the top. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition has a PCIe 8-pin for power which is the same as the Dual 4060. This also means that a new ATX 3.0 power supply isn’t needed which helps keep costs down as well.
Looking around at the edges of the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition gives us a lot more information on the cooler design and it is completely different than I expected and different from the Dual 4060. Most video cards have an aluminum sheet metal heatsink that stacks them together with gaps and use heatpipes to pull heat out across them. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition does have one 6mm heatpipe that has an S shape to cover the entire card, you can see it on the top and bottom. But the heatsink that ZOTAC GAMING went with is a machined aluminum design which is a little more old-school. It is in a vertical design which pushes air from the front fans out the top and bottom of the card. The one-piece heatsink design has two big downsides that don’t complement the card design. Because of the length of the card with the two 90mm fans, a lot of the card is past the PCB but this design doesn’t allow for air to blow through the cooler and out the back which is a big area that helps with cooling. That whole section beyond the end of the PCB also doesn’t use most of that space with a big gap there. Really this design could have been a single fan ITX length card without losing too much cooling from that end of the heatsink. The end view of the card also shows how the fan shroud extends out beyond the length of the heatsink as well, making the card longer than it needs to be.
The back of the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition has the same white and silver theme as seen on the rest of the card. Most of it is white with a silver ring painted around the outside edge along with a wider section at the bottom which has the GeForce RTX branding printed in a darker silver. The grooved accents seen on the fan shroud are also here which look good and some of those are cut all the way through and give a peak at the PCB and the heatsink from the back, but this isn’t a blow-through design. The ZOTAC GAMING logo is printed in a nice RGB-like purple to green metallic fade as well. The serial number sticker is back here and isn’t normally pink, that is just for review samples so it won't stand out as much. There is also a notch at the top around the power connection to make that easier to reach. Interestingly the extra length of the fan shroud isn’t also an issue with the backplate which is shorter and better matches the heatsink length.
The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition has the ZOTAC GAMING logo printed in the center of the PCI bracket, around that there are some ventilation holes but they get smaller and farther apart the further out they go. The cooler design doesn’t push air in this direction so this is all decoration. Then on the bottom edge, the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition has four display outputs. You get three DisplayPorts 1.4a connections and one HDMI 2.1a. The HDMI is slipped in the middle of the DisplayPorts which used to be the norm but I have been seeing that moved down to the bottom to make it easier to find including on the Asus Dual RTX 4060.
I did want to put the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition next to the Dual RTX 4060 that we took a look at yesterday and the rounded end of the Twin Edge cooler makes the small length difference between the two look a lot larger. The two cards couldn’t be much farther apart in overall designs really between the all-black and all-white designs and the two different heatsink designs as well.
It just so happens that for the RTX 3060 launch, I ended up with a White Edition dual fan card from ZOTAC GAMING as well and on top of that our GTX 160 and GTX 1660 cards are also Twin Edge cards as well so I had to get pictures of them all together and the two white cards together to compare. The 3060 was an AMP design and with that even though it is a dual fan design it is a larger card with the second fan being larger. That design also has a much more robust heatsink design as well than on the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition. I do like the styling that ZOTAC GAMING has gone with now, it is cleaner and more uniform. The move away from the white center fan stickers was a good move as well, you can see how those yellowed quickly, really they had a slight tint to them even when I reviewed it but that has gotten a lot worse. The metal center caps on the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition won't have that issue. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is a lot like the Twin Edge GTX 1060 in size but the cooler, styling, and fans have all changed and the GTX 1660 Twin Edge is significantly smaller than the other cards.
Before getting into testing I did get a look at the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition in action. Normally I would only post up pictures of the lighting but the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition does look good when running with its white fans. The ZOTAC GAMING logo up on top is backlit which is a big change from the MSRP-priced Asus Dual yesterday which had no lighting. The logo is backlit in white which looks great on the white card and is color neutral as well. I am not a big fan of backlit logos and would prefer backlit accents. With everything having backlit logos your PC starts to look like times square, but this does at least match the card. That said I think having something like the grooved design on the front edge of the fan shroud up on top and backlit would have been cooler.
