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MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio Graphics Card Review

In our last 2 graphics cards reviews, we have taken a look at both the MSI RTX 2080 Duke OC and the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio graphics cards. Today is the turn of the goliath MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio which is the current choice for 4K gaming and the best available gaming performance. In this review, we will be taking a look at how the RTX 2080 Ti performs against the RTX 2080 and against other cards we’ve had on our graphics card test bench.

Here is what MSI has to say about their RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio:

“The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO delivers the ultimate PC gaming experience. Powered by the new NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture and the revolutionary RTX platform, RTX graphics cards bring together real-time ray tracing, artificial intelligence, and programmable shading. This is a whole new way to experience games. MSI’s award-winning thermal design TRI-FROZR uses three brand new TORX 3.0 fans, which is MSI’s proprietary fan technology that combines two different types of fan blades to optimize airflow and minimize noise. The new GAMING X TRIO card uses a mix of black and gunmetal grey with elegant shapes and features a classy brushed metal backplate that matches the front, gorgeous RGB effects found on the front and the side of the card can be controlled using MSI’s Mystic Light software.”

What about the new NVIDIA Turing based technologies?

What Ray Tracing is In NVIDIA’s Words:

Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behaviour of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games like never before. Experience ray tracing first-hand with the interactive demos and videos below.

What is Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS)?:

Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is new RTX technology that uses the power of deep learning and AI to train the GPU to render crisp images while running up to 2x faster than previous generation GPUs using conventional anti-aliasing techniques.

GPU Boost 4.0

The algorithms used with GPU Boost 3.0 were completely inside the driver and were not exposed to users. However, GPU Boost 4.0 now exposes the algorithms to users so they can manually modify the various curves themselves to increase performance in the GPU. The biggest benefit is in the temp domain where new inflection points have been added. Where before it was a straight line that dropped directly down to the Base Clock, the clock now holds the Boost Clock where it can be set to run longer at higher temperatures before a second temp target (T2) is reached where it will drop the clocks.

Now we have that out of the way, it’s time to take a look at the official specifications and see whether or not the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio is the right card for you.

MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio Specifications & Features

Chipset	GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Edition	GAMING X TRIO
Manufacturing process	12 nm
Microarchitecture	Turing
Cores	4352
Streams	N/A
NVIDIA Tensor Cores	544
Core Clock	1350 MHz
Boost Clock	1755 MHz
Memory Size	11GB
Memory Type	GDDR6
Memory Clock	14000 MHz
Memory Bus	352 Bit
Cooling Solution	Tri Fan (3)
Cooler Design	TRI-FROZR with TORX 3. 0 + RGB LED
Included/Fitted Backplate	Yes
Interface	PCIe 3.0 (x16)
Connectivity	3 x DisplayPort 1.4 1 x HDMI 2.0b 1 x USB Type-C (VirtualLink)
Maximum Digital Resolution	7680×4320 @ 60Hz (8K UHD)
Maximum Analog (VGA) Resolution	N/A
Max. Concurrent Displays	4 Displays
Multi-Way Graphics Support	2-Way NVLink
Real-Time Ray Tracing	Yes
GeForce GTX VR Ready	Yes
Microsoft DirectX Support	12 API
HDCP Ready	Yes
Width	2.75 Slot
Low Profile Compatible	No
Low Profile Support	N/A
Graphics Card TDP/Power	300W
Graphics Card Power Connectors	1 x 6-pin PCIe 2 x 8-pin PCIe
Minimum Recommended PSU	650 W
Maximum GPU Temperature	89 °C
Dimensions	140 x 55. 6 x 327 mm

MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio Closer Look

On the surface, the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio is near identical to the card we previously reviewed, the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio. The card is equipped with the Gaming X Trio ZERO FROZR cooler which cools the custom RTX 2080 Ti PCB with a total of 3 TORX 3.0 fans. These are designed to provide optimal cooling, spinning when needed and idle when, well idling. The dimensions of the card with the equipped cooler is 327 x 140 x 55.6mm (WxDxH) which is the same dimensions as the virtually identical MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio as previously stated. This card covers 2.75 slots which technically makes this a triple slot cooler.

One of the best things in terms of the design is the included backplate. This adds contrast to the black and silver Gaming X Trio cooler and in a system with RGB lighting, should create a cool glare from the backplate. Not only this, but the backplate is designed to help cool the components on the rear of the PCB. It has detailed grooves where airflow can enter and escape. The backplate is finished off with an MSI logo and MSI Gaming Dragon shield.

On the I/O of the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio is a total of 5 connectors. These include three regular DisplayPort 1.4a ports, 1 x HDMI 2.0b port and a VirtualLink USB-C connector for VR head-mounted display (HMD).

One of the major elements to consider when looking at this card is the required power inputs. This custom PCB uses 2 x 8-pin and 1 x 6-pin power connectors which combined allow the card to pull 450W of power from the power supply. MSI recommend you use a power supply rated at 650W as the bare minimum.

Moving back to the design, the RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio does have RGB LED lighting and oh boy, it looks amazing when lit up. These LEDs can be controlled using MSI’s Mystic Light software. Below is an image of it powered up in our test system.

Now that we have seen what the card looks like and the specifications, it’s time to see how it performs on our test bench.

MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio Performance

Test Setup

CPU – Intel Core i7-7700K @ Stock Settings
CPU Cooler – be quiet! Silent Loop 280mm
Motherboard – ASUS ROG Z370-E Strix
RAM – Ballistix Elite 3000MHz 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4
PSU – Corsair HX750i
OS – Windows 10 Professional 64 bit

Methodology:

All benchmarks are done on a fresh install of Windows 10 Professional 64-bit that is fully up-to-date with Windows Updates to ensure that the performance reflects a real-world scenario and not that of a tweaked benchmarking system. Every benchmark runs for a total of three times and then an average is taken of those results.

3D Benchmarks:

3DMark Firestrike – Normal
3DMark Time Spy – Normal

Gaming Benchmarks:

Ashes of The Singularity – High Preset (GPU Focused): 1080p, 1440p & 4K
Rise of The Tomb Raider – Very High Preset: 1080p, 1440p & 4K
Tom Clancy’s: The Division – Ultra Preset: 1080p, 1440p & 4K
Total War: WARHAMMER – Ultra Preset 1080p, 1440p & 4K

Misc Testing:

Idle and Load delta temperatures in Celcius
Overclocking performance: 3DMark Time Spy

3DMark Firestrike

3DMark Time Spy

Ashes of The Singularity

Rise of The Tomb Raider

Tom Clancy’s: The Division

Total War: WARHAMMER

Graphics Card Temperatures (Delta Temp in Celcius)

Overclocked Performance – 3DMark Fire Strike

The MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio Review: Performance & The Verdict

It’s clear from the testing that the MSI RTX 2080 Ti is a force to be reckoned with. It’s a beast and compared to the lower spec RTX 2080, it’s highly impressive. Usually, when we overclock graphics cards, we do this manually but MSI has a new tool in its arsenal. This is called the OC Scanner which is a function of the MSI Afterburner utility. It’s in a beta stage currently but it can be downloaded from here.

Here is what MSI has to say about the OC Scanner technology which MSI Afterburner features:

“The OC Scanner is essentially a tool that uses an algorithm developed by NVIDIA for the RTX 20 series graphics cards. Within just a few minutes it will run a process that will determine the highest stable overclock settings for your graphics card. The process consists out of the same basic steps as manual overclocking, being: increasing clock speed by one step, then stressing the GPU to see if this clock speed is stable. If the clock speed is stable under load, the clock speed will be upped by another step and the GPU will be stressed once more. This process repeats itself until the GPU fails to maintain stability under load. At that point, the last known stable clock speed will be set as the maximum value.

This process will repeat itself 4 times to cover 4 different Voltage levels. It does this because the OC Scanner algorithm uses the so-called Voltage/Frequency Curve. This curve works by matching the values of clock speeds to corresponding values of voltage that can sustain those clock speeds. By doing this you will get a curve where higher voltages are required to run at higher clock speeds. Out of the box the last few generations of graphics cards have used this curve. What OC Scanner does is to see how far the curve can be safely adjusted to provide higher clock speeds.”

For our overclocking performance test, we used the OC Scanner in conjunction with the MSI Afterburner software and achieved a positive result. Performance in 3DMark Time Spy jumped from 12804 to 13118 which is around 2. 5% for those wondering. The overclock on top of the already overclocked card was +165MHz on the core. The OC Scanner utility doesn’t overclock VRAM and this needs to be done manually.

Time to see whether or not the MSI RTX 2080 Ti is a worthwhile purchase for gamers looking for top performance, or if it’s too expensive at £1199!

What’s hot:

Fantastic out of the box performance!
ZERO FROZR technology means its silent when idling and isn’t that loud at full load
Slightly more expensive than the Founders Edition, but it’s worth it in comparison for the Gaming X Trio cooler
OC Scanner is developed by MSI and is a great utility for novices
Backplate is good quality and an anti-sag brace is included in the box
Looks great, especially in the dark with the RGB LEDs

What’s not:

RTX 2080 Ti’s are expensive, very expensive!
Memory isn’t overclocked out of the box
No need for the extra 6-pin connector as it draws enough power from the 2 x 8-pins

The first point I want to raise really is the value aspect of the RTX 2080 Tis in general. With a flagship product in any range, you’re going to pay a hefty premium for attaining the best performance currently possible. This is the case with this card and as far as value goes against over RTX 2080 Ti’s, then the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio is one of the best value ones out of the bunch. It’s also one of the best looking too for what its worth.

The RTX 2080 Ti vs RTX 2080 Debate

When comparing the performance. As it stands from a price point of view, the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio can be bought for £1200. This is £400 more than the previous MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio and MSI RTX 2080 Duke OC models. The price is 1.5x, but the performance doesn’t reflect this, hence the usual price premium for opting for the top performance NVIDIA model.

All this aside, the Turing architecture does offer great benefits with Ray Tracing and DLSS technologies. The RTX 2080 Ti is the top performing gaming card currently on the market and the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio is one of the best examples of this. It looks fantastic with an all-metal design. It also feels very well built and with the inclusive anti-sag bracket, MSI wants you to have the very best you can when you buy their products, that much is clear.

Overall if I had to recommend a new graphics card, the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio certainly makes that particular shortlist. The main question is whether or not you’re gaming at 4K resolutions and if not, would the RTX 2080 not make a better purchase? I will leave that up to you to decide for yourselves, but the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio is a thing of beauty.

It performs great and if you’re looking for an RTX 2080 Ti for some ray tracing action when more games eventually adopt this technology, there’s no reason not to opt for this particular model. Value is subjective and here I believe the RTX 2080 to be the better buy for 1080/1440p gamers. On the other hand, 4K gaming is a different kettle of fish. It’s a beast of a card and deserves our Gold Award and it gets a big thumbs up from us!

Thanks to MSI for sending a sample of the RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio in for review.

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MSI’s Nvidia RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio Review: 2080 Ti Performance, Pascal Pricing

By Joel Hruska on October 29, 2020 at 9:04 am

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There are two things you should know about the RTX 3070. First, this is a fabulous GPU by any measure. Nvidia has been claiming that this $500 GPU could match its $1200 RTX 2080 Ti Founder’s Edition. That claim has been demonstrated as broadly true with the release of the Founder’s Edition earlier this week — the RTX 2080 Ti can still pull ahead by a whisker in some 4K games, but in the vast majority of titles, the two are neck-and-neck.

Second: As great a GPU as the RTX 3070 is, you may still want to hold off a bit before purchasing a new card. It may not be able to buy one in any case — Nvidia has warned would-be customers to expect limited supply through the end of this year and into 2021. Separately from this, AMD will launch its own Big Navi cards in a matter of weeks. It may be prudent to see how the two compare before pulling the trigger.

GA102 and the MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio

The MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio is built around Nvidia’s GA104 GPU, while the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 use the larger GA102 processor. Nvidia has been building multiple die at the high end for its recent launches as opposed to fusing off parts of the same design to create lower-end parts. When Turing launched, the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 each used a different GPU design (TU104 and TU106, respectively). This time around, the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 share a common GPU core (GA102), while RTX 3070 is built around its own unique chip (GA104).

Like its Turing and Pascal predecessors, the RTX 3070 retains the same 8GB RAM capacity Nvidia has used in this price segment since 2016. The company had plans to launch high VRAM variants of the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, but those plans have been canceled or at least put on hold until overall availability improves.

The RTX 3070 packs 5888 cores, 96 ROPs, 14Gbps GDDR6, and a 1.725GHz boost clock. The GPU’s massive number of cores — more than 2.5x as many as the RTX 2070 — is why Nvidia is so confident in its ability to match the RTX 2080 Ti with a much cheaper card. The chip is a 17.4B transistor-design and its built on Samsung’s 8nm process. Computationally, the RTX 3070 has ~30 percent less compute power than the RTX 3080, and 41 percent less memory bandwidth. In addition to using slower RAM (16Gbps, down from 19Gbps on the RTX 3080), the RTX 3070 also has a smaller, 256-bit memory bus.

That’s the GA104 GPU itself. What has MSI brought to the table with the Gaming X Trio?

The Gaming X Trio uses a tri-axial cooler design, with additional bracing included to strengthen the GPU and prevent bending during transport.

I’ve seen more than one GPU shipped with inadequate packaging around it in the last few years, and I suspect the underlying problem is that people don’t appreciate just how heavy these cards have gotten. MSI’s strengthening bracket is a nice touch.

RGB support is provided via MSI’s “Mystic Light” system, and the default RGB is quite pretty if you like that sort of thing. The RGB lighting is designed to be controlled from MSI’s Dragon Center application, which functions as an all-in-one stop for controlling RGB, overclocking, and managing various system functions.

For those of you concerned about the power cabling situation, the MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio uses twin 8-pin connectors, not the specialized Nvidia cable.

The Competition

Our competitive selection against the RTX 3070 is a bit more limited than I’d like — I don’t have an RTX 2080 Ti to compare against. We’ll be comparing the RTX 3070 against the just-launched RTX 3080, the older RTX 2080 (non-Super), and the Radeon VII from AMD. The RTX 2070 Super and the RTX 2080 perform quite similarly, so the RTX 2080 does double-duty representing both SKUs.

I chose the Radeon VII over the 5700 XT because AMD’s highest-end consumer GCN product often outperformed the newer RDNA chip last year, even if it was only by a few percent. The fact is, AMD doesn’t have a great GPU to compare in this bracket at the moment. The 5700 XT is currently selling for ~$390, which is quite a bit less than the RTX 3070’s $500 baseline MSRP, and the Radeon VII isn’t on the market at the moment.

For this review, I’ve decided to put AMD’s overall best foot forward. In a matter of weeks, we’ll have competitive figures from the Radeon 6800 and 6800 XT, and will be able to give you a much better estimation of what Big Navi does and doesn’t bring to the table. Regardless, the AMD figures are here for reference. Until Big Navi debuts, Nvidia is competing against itself. If you want to estimate RX 5700 XT performance, assume it’s close enough to the Radeon VII that you’d never actually notice in reality, but factually a bit slower if you ran the numbers.

All testing performed on an Asus Maximus XII Hero Wi-Fi with 32GB of DDR4-3600 installed. Intel’s Core i9-10900K was used for all testing, with Windows 10 2004 and the latest set of updates and patches installed.

Benchmark Results:

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation shows the RTX 3070 pulling ahead of the RTX 2080 by 1.2x at 1080p, though the gap actually shrinks a bit as we go up. Ashes doesn’t bring GPUs to their knees quite the way it used to.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has the dubious distinction of having the worst MSAA mode I’ve ever seen, as far as its impact on performance. I’ve kept it around as a benchmark mostly for this reason. The RTX 3070 holds its 1.2x improvement over the RTX 2080 at 1080p but extends the lead to 1.26x at 4K. This is the first time we’ve seen a GPU clear the 30fps average at 4K with MSAA enabled, so that’s a serious achievement for the RTX 3080.

At 4K, the RTX 3080 is 1.31x faster than the RTX 3070 and 1.4x more expensive. We expect price-performance curves to begin to bend out of a 1:1 curve at these price points, and the ratio isn’t bad — provided either of these GPUs are available for MSRP. The Radeon VII fully matches the RTX 2080 here, but it’s clearly a last-gen card.

The gaps between the GPUs are a little smaller here, but we’re using somewhat lower detail levels, which means the CPU is in play a little more than typical. The RTX 3070 continues to impress. While $500 is a great deal to spend on a GPU, the high performance of the RTX 3070 at $500 implies good things about the GPUs that will follow farther down the stack.

AMD’s Radeon VII would have benefited somewhat from DX12 here, but it wouldn’t be enough to change the big picture. Nvidia is nothing if not consistent here, with regular bands between each GPU.

I threw Strange Brigade into the mixture to see what a Vulkan title might look like. Nothing much to see here, except an interesting performance by the Radeon VII, which lags the RTX 2080 by about 17 percent in 1080p, roughly the same amount at 1440p, and just 3. 4 percent in 4K. Every Nvidia GPU loses much more performance from 1440p – 4K than 1080p – 1440p, implying this may be a quirk of the engine.

At the risk of sounding boring, you’ve seen this graph already. Remember that the RTX 2080 is also standing in for the RTX 2070 Super — the gap with the standard RTX 2070 would be larger, and the performance per dollar gains are considerable.

No surprises here.

Final Fantasy XV doesn’t run well on the Radeon VII — this is a test where we suspect RDNA would turn in better results. With Big Navi launching soon, it’s not a big deal either way.

Three different Metro Exodus graphs here, to highlight three different takeaways. First, we have Ultra ray tracing enabled at Extreme Detail on the RTX 3070 versus the RTX 2080. This is a worst-case scenario, with 200 percent supersampling active — and the RTX 3070 still manages to turn in a 1.31x higher framerate at 1080p. Interestingly, the gap is smallest without ray tracing enabled — and here, the RTX 3070 isn’t all that much faster than the RTX 2080. Not sure why the RTX 3080 threw an odd, lower result in 4K — I confirmed the result in the performance log, but I’ll run the test again and update this graph if needs be.

Big Picture Takeaways

At $500, the RTX 3070 is an objectively great GPU. As I expected, it solves all of the problems I initially had with Turing. Ray-tracing support is beginning to show up in games, and the higher-end cards in the family are now powerful enough to enable it at ultra-quality without needing to bother with tricks like DLSS 1.0. (DLSS 2.0 is much nicer). With Turing, I wasn’t comfortable recommending the family as a long-term investment into ray tracing given that the performance hit for enabling it could be 60-80 percent.

But most of all, with Ampere, Nvidia has returned to a Pascal-ish GPU pricing model. When it launched Turing, the RTX 2080 was 1.28x faster than the GTX 1080 on average, and cost about 1.28x more. The RTX 3070, meanwhile, is about 1.25x faster than the RTX 2080, while costing about $200 less than that GPU did at launch.

If you know you’re Team Green forever, and you’ve got $500 to throw at a GPU upgrade, this is a great card to choose. Nvidia powers the majority of gaming PCs, which means game developers will build their titles to target whatever amount of VRAM Nvidia GPUs offer. It’s going to be interesting to see if AMD’s 16GB cards can offer performance advantages, but 8GB cards aren’t going to be outdated in a year or two. MSI’s version of the GPU doesn’t put a lot of english on the ball, but there’s no need to fix what isn’t broken, and this GPU most emphatically isn’t.

The RTX 3070 is the true successor to the value proposition Nvidia debuted with the GTX 1080, assuming one can snag a GPU at MSRP. Whether that’s going to be possible is anyone’s guess, and the impact of bots has been ugly enough this year that I feel obligated to leave a bit of a question mark on this claim.

If you are willing to wait and see what AMD will bring to the fight, I recommend doing so — it’s always a good idea to see what the competition has in store — but only if $579 is still within your price range. Either way, the RTX 3070 is a huge leap forward for gaming, and a great value for gamers that can afford it.

Now Read:

High Demand May Not Be Entirely Responsible for the Lack of RTX 3080 GPUs
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Nvidia Pushes RTX 3070 Launch Back 2 Weeks to Avoid Bot Debacle

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MSI could not stay away from the announcement and start of sales of a new line of video cards based on NVIDIA Turing microarchitecture and has already managed to replenish its lineup with a whole bunch of new products. In its assortment you will find about ten different versions of the flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti: from those equipped with a liquid cooling system to the usual models with an air cooler.

In this review, we will talk about one of the top versions with an air cooling system — MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO . She received a reinforced power subsystem, high factory overclocking and a proprietary cooling system with TORX 3.0 fans on a double ball bearing. Let’s take a look at what benefits you get from buying this model.

Specification

Model	MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO
GPU	NVIDIA TU102-300A
Microarchitecture	NVIDIA Turing
Technical process, nm	12
Number of CUDA cores	4352
Number of texture units	272
Number of raster blocks	88
Number of tensor cores	544
Number of cores RT	68
GPU base frequency, MHz	1350
GPU dynamic frequency, MHz	1755
Effective memory frequency, MHz	14000
Memory size, GB	11
Memory type	GDDR6
Memory bus width, bit	352
Memory bandwidth, GB/s	616
Tire type	PCI Express 3. 0 x16
External interfaces	1 x USB Type-C 1 x HDMI 2.0b 3 x DisplayPort 1.4
Minimum power supply unit, W	650
Additional PCIe power connectors	1 x 6-pin 2 x 8-pin
Dimensions (measured in our test lab), mm	327 x 140 x 55.6 (339 x 140 x 57)
Drivers	Latest drivers can be downloaded from MSI website or GPU manufacturer website
Manufacturer website	MSI

Packing and contents

The novelty is supplied in a large cardboard box, decorated with pleasant color printing. On the front side there is an image of a video card with MSI Mystic Light turned on. The reverse side of the box is reserved for a description of the key advantages of the model and some of its characteristics.

The list of system requirements for the computer where you plan to install the video card is also located on the back of the box. Based on the recommendations, the power supply must have a power of at least 650 W and support one 6-pin and two 8-pin PCIe connectors.

In the kit we found standard documentation, a CD with software, a metal bracket for additional fixation of the video card in the system unit and a nice bonus in the form of stickers.

The reference set of interfaces is used for image output:

1 x USB Type-C;
1 x HDMI 2.0b;
3 x DisplayPort 1.4.

The maximum resolution is 7680 x 4320.

Appearance

The design of MSI GAMING TRIO series video cards has undergone minor changes compared to its predecessors, but the overall design approach has remained. The casing is also made of plastic of various textures and several shades (from black to gray). Small inserts made of red translucent plastic have disappeared and the logic of the fan arrangement has changed. Now the 86mm spinner has moved from the center closer to the interface panel.

On the reverse side there is a metal support plate, which is designed to protect the printed circuit board from bending, as well as to prevent possible damage to components during inaccurate installation and operation.

Unlike the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, both older video cards support the organization of multigraphic bundles. However, the old NVIDIA SLI bridges are not suitable for this purpose — you need to purchase a new NVLink Bridge. If you want to combine a pair of MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO into a bundle, then for this you need to detach a small plastic part of the casing, which is fixed with a couple of screws. It is for this reason that MSI engineers decided to move one of the fans closer to the interface panel so that there is more free space in the connector area.

Power is provided by a PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot and three PCIe slots (one 6-pin and two 8-pin) conveniently located at the rear of the board. The cooler doesn’t make it any harder to disconnect the PCIe cables.

The video accelerator is based on the NVIDIA TU102-300A GPU, manufactured using a 12-nm process technology. It consists of 4352 CUDA cores, 272 texture units and 88 raster units. The base frequency is declared at the level of 1350 MHz, and the dynamic frequency is 1755 MHz (the reference indicator is 1545 MHz).

The video memory is made up of Micron’s 11 GB GDDR6 chips, which operate at a reference effective frequency of 14000 MHz. Data exchange between the graphics core and memory is carried out through a 352-bit bus, which is capable of passing 616 GB of information per second.

Unfortunately, we were not allowed to disassemble the video card, so we have to be content with images from the official site. The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO is based on a proprietary PCB design and features a reinforced 17-phase power supply for the GPU and memory chips.

Fans of LED backlighting will appreciate MSI’s new product, because it has several illumination zones at once, and part of the light is beautifully reflected from the PCB itself during operation.

You can control the MSI Mystic Light in proprietary software. Several operating modes are available for each zone and the ability to synchronize illumination with other system components.

Cooling system

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO video card with installed cooling system takes up almost three expansion slots and has a total length of 327mm according to the official website.

The design of the cooler includes a massive two-piece aluminum radiator with a nickel-plated copper base and seven nickel-plated copper heat pipes (six 6 mm and one 8 mm). The video memory chips are cooled using a separate plate with thermal pads, and the elements of the power subsystem are in contact with the main radiator.

A pair of 96 mm and one 86 mm fans are responsible for active heat dissipation. They are all made according to the TORX 3.0 design and have an improved impeller shape. They are based on reliable and durable double ball bearings.

With automatic fan speed control, in maximum load mode, the graphics core heated up to 71 ° C at a critical rate of 89 ° C, and the turntables spun up to 1307 — 1350 rpm (49-40% of their maximum power). According to subjective sensations, the noise was very low and did not interfere with work at all.

For comparison, let’s take a 3-fan cooling system for the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti OC edition video card, which in the same mode kept the GPU temperature at 60 ° C with a comparable noise level. But her GPU frequency was lower: 1680 versus 1770 MHz for the MSI version.

In the maximum fan speed mode (2522 — 3312 rpm), the GPU temperature dropped to 56°C. The noise exceeded the average level and became uncomfortable for constant use.

As for the cooling system on the video card from ASUS, it cooled the GPU down to 50°C in the same mode. However, its frequency was again lower: 1695 MHz versus 1800 MHz for the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO.

In the absence of load, the frequencies of the graphics core and memory were automatically reduced, allowing to reduce power consumption and heat dissipation of the video accelerator as a whole. In this mode, the temperature of the GPU was 46°C. Recall that thanks to MSI ZERO FROZR technology, the fans start to rotate only when the temperature reaches 60°C.

In general, the cooling system of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO made a very good impression. It does an excellent job of cooling the overclocked graphics core, and will not bother you with high noise levels during everyday use.

The only thing I didn’t like was the presence of extraneous sounds in the form of a high-frequency squeak of throttles at high loads. Perhaps this is a feature of an exclusively test sample.

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO 9 at a glance0001

Details

9.6/ 10

Rating

Specifications MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO

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For mining	Boost video processor frequency — 1755 MHz

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING X TRIO Reviews

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Grade
5

Advantages: — Performance
— Silent and high-quality cooling system
— Video memory modules from Samsung
― Quality build
― Design
― Customizable Mystic Light
― Rich set

Disadvantages: ― Price
― Video card power 6+8+8 pin
― Pretty massive card
― High power consumption

I wanted to try for a long time graphics cards from MSI as I generally like this brand and decided to switch to this card with INNO3D GeForce GTX 1080 Ti iChill X4 Ultra after two years of using it. The biggest problem was with the cooling system and frequencies on the previous GPU, which I successfully solved by purchasing a video card from MSI. I was very surprised by the quality of workmanship, there is no backlash, there are no gaps and cracks, everything is just perfect, as well as the cooling system, it can be called almost silent, until I overclocked it, but I think a lot can be achieved with such a system. Regarding the performance of the video card, I think it’s not even necessary to say in one word this is the RTX 2080 Ti. I was also pleasantly surprised by the bundle, you won’t find this in every map, and here they even put a backup, but I still used mine. Of the minuses, you can only highlight the price, dimensions and weight of the card, but they are perfectly leveled by the power and silence of the cooling that you get in return. At the moment, the purchase of the RTX 2080 Ti is not profitable in light of the release of a new generation of video cards, so I advise you to consider purchasing the RTX 3070/3080, the same video card was bought long before the announcement, and the review was written just now 🙂

Maxell_Rus

September 7, 2020

\ Using experience: less than a month

Rating
1

Advantages: Chip tu 102

Disadvantages: Execution.

Comment: Don’t buy this card guys, a year later I decided to install a water block. Opened and what do you think? That’s right, all the thermal pads flowed, and strongly, this is at least horror!

Vasily P.

February 22, 2020

\ Using experience: more than 9 years0003

Rating
5

Pros: amazing video card!
performance!
silent
cold (for 2080ti series)
cool lighting
no throttle squeak (this is important)
turntables do not turn on up to 60 degrees

Disadvantages: will not fit into every case
requires 8+8+6 pins
consumes a lot of electricity
80.000
Useless stand included

Comment: one of the best solutions on the market 2080 ti
is worth every ruble!
through Afterburner native utility (OS scanner) without problems overclocked to 2055 MHz on the core

SERGEY M.

November 30, 2019
Moscow and Moscow region

\ Usage experience: less than 9 months0003

Rating
5

Advantages: 1. Excellent cooling
2. Bomb design
3. Steel backplate
4. Quiet turntables
5. Good overclocker danced

Disadvantages: I don’t know what disadvantages you can find here, for me the video card is perfect in everything.

Comment: I assembled a top system on Z390 gaming pro carbon, 9900k and RTX 2080ti. Naturally, the choice fell on the favorite brand MSI. I use their products all the time and have no complaints. Satisfied with absolutely everything, games fly, I don’t do work. I tried to stream through the video card, I don’t feel any load at all, like the video card itself)
There are other manufacturers, but MSI for were, are and will be the best in terms of reliability, quality, design.
I trudge with design in general, I dabbled with backlight for a couple of days, and this way and that. It looks massive as befits a top model.
I am absolutely satisfied with everything and I hope that it will please me for more than one year.
Feel free to take this video card and you will not regret anything.
I put it in the computer, installed Windows, firewood from the Internet pulled itself up, manually did not install anything, put my favorite games and go.

karen ovsepyan

October 30, 2019

\ Using experience: less than a month

Rating
5

Advantages: — Powerful cooling system with three quiet fans and a massive heatsink.
In stress tests, we failed to heat the card above 75 degrees, and it did not take a minute or two, but much longer in a full-tower case with two 120mm fans for intake and two 120mm fans for exhaust.
When the load is removed, the cooling system quickly cools the chip to 50 degrees, after which the fans stop.
— Pretty good kit, which includes a 6pin-8pin adapter, a stand for a video card case, documentation, small cardboard mats or cup holders with the manufacturer’s logo and art dedicated to this series of cards.
— Near-top performance for a game card at the moment.
There is, of course, the GeForce Titan V (Volta) with 12 GB of HBM2 memory and a 3072-bit bus, which is even more powerful, but also costs almost 4 times more.
— Cool customizable Mystic Light — but it’s more of a nice bonus from the «any whim for your money» series.

Disadvantages: — Personally, my copy of the card is not very overclockable — a maximum of 10% to the nominal core/memory frequencies.
But with such a standard performance, overclocking is not needed in the next couple of years, except perhaps for enthusiasts with liquid nitrogen, but they will also take other cards with a different overclocking potential.
— Relative disadvantage: massive (30 cm in length, if installed together with a stand — it takes up 5 and a half slots in the case, 2 and a half for the card itself, then one empty slot and 2 more slots for the video card stand) and heavy (more 2 kilograms of weight, so the stand is recommended for installation).
— Quite a lot of power consumption, which is due to the performance of a card of this level.
If your PSU does not have at least 600-650W honest power, then it should be replaced.
Do not forget about the add. 6 + 8 + 8pin power supply, which also not every PSU will provide in terms of cables.
— High price — we thank the exchange rate of the Russian currency for this.

Comment: Switched to this card from a GeForce GTX1080Ti after a year of using it. I did not notice a big increase in performance in tests or games, but there is about a 20-25% increase, depending on the game or benchmark.
Is it worth it or not — I have already made my choice, let others decide for themselves.
Personally, I am satisfied with the card, I hope that in the next couple of years NVidia will not roll out another mega-technology, after the release of which the old cards will become sharply weaker than the new ones.

Alexander Nikolaev

August 24, 2019,
Belgorod

\ Usage experience: less than 9 months0003

Rating
5

Advantages: Samsung memory chip (judging by the numbers on the box, mine was made on 04. 2019)
Other advantages are already listed in the specifications
Hot (idle 30-40 under load 78)

Comment: Before buying, I was worried that the memory chip would be from microns, and there is no way to check this until you install it on a computer (oh, these Internet, they were intimidated by the fact that this memory is not chasing well, and it was defective)

It’s hard to say anything about FPS, I have a weak CPU (i7 7700) and slow RAM (2400 MHz) , but in difficult scenes it starts to seriously sag

I will edit the review as soon as I get a normal processor and RAM.

wipechaos

August 7, 2019,
Moscow and Moscow region

\ Using experience: less than a month

Rating
5

Advantages: Hello everyone! This video card, although it costs decently, but I think it deserves it.
The design of the video card and its name, in my opinion, sounds quite menacing, and perhaps scary. My pc consists of intel core i9 7900x, 32 ram, ssd 1tb. I compare the video card with my last gtx 1080 ti. In modern games (Far cry 5, Vidmak 3,assassin’s creed odyssey, Metro Exodus and others), the increase in 4k and on hyper settings is plus 10-20 fps. There is also a cool feature like dxr that changes the lighting and helps to achieve a more realistic picture. DLSS technology also improves anti-aliasing, which is really seen when playing shooters. One of the pluses is its temperature is not more than 70 degrees. I want to praise msi for the quality service and updates that improve FPS and picture quality. Thanks to all!

Disadvantages: not found.

Ramil H.

May 8, 2019

\ Experience: several months

Rating
1

Advantages: Power

Disadvantages: Production defects of early models. 30 days in service.

Comment: Bought the most recent one in October. Worked until January 4th. Then a manufacturing defect came out. I took it to the service, he handed it over to the manufacturer for a guarantee, and the result was only after 30 days. In total, it broke down on January 4, the service started working on the 9th, it got to the manufacturer on the 14th, the result was just received on February 19

Alexey K.

19February 2019,
Moscow and Moscow region

\ Experience: several months

Rating
5

Advantages: All the advantages have been discussed more than once on the Internet. What I personally liked:
1. Really nice lighting. For whistle blowers.
2. Quiet and cold. In WoW, PUBG, Total War in 4K — no more than 72 degrees, you can’t hear the fans. Throttle whistling was not detected.
3. Rich equipment with a stand for vidyuhu, so as not to sag (here the problems started).
4. Reliable brand. I have been using MSi video cards for 8 years, no problems have ever arisen, pah pah. There are still two 4-year-old Gtx 1070s (worked in SLI), in perfect condition. True, it is worth saying that I used them carefully with a high-speed profile for better cooling.

Disadvantages: 1. Huge and heavy, barely fit into a full tower case.
2. The price bites.
3. Semi-defective video card stand (see comment).

Comment: In general, I installed this miracle in the case and started testing it in Aida64. And hello — the right fan gains 100% speed after the video card is heated to more than 50 degrees and continues to rotate at maximum, regardless of further actions. Only reboot helps. I reinstalled the drivers, poked power cables, shamanized in the afterburner and Evga Precision X1, flashed it to the old version of the firmware — nothing helped. As a result, on some foreign forum I found a mention of a stand that it somehow prevents the fan from slowing down. Dismantled, checked — everything worked like clockwork. As a result, I put the stand back on, fiddled with the support for the right cooler, and if you cling to the video card with the edge so that it rests only on half of the intended plane, everything starts working safely, although it looks crooked if you look closely. Why such savings on the unfortunate piece of iron from MSi is not clear. I think over time this crap will change.

Afghan R.

December 11, 2018,
Moscow and Moscow region

\ Usage experience: less than 9 months0003

Rating
1

Advantages: The radiator is cooled by three coolers
Beautiful RGB backlight
Aluminum backplate

Disadvantages: It is connected with three connectors 6+8+8
Unjustified high cost
The most interesting in the description

glad to buy 1. 5 days, because after a day and a half of use (without overclocking), artifacts appeared on the monitor screen for no reason (I’m attaching a photo). Took it to the store, sent it to the service for 20 days to get the manufacturer’s conclusion.
While grieving, the i9 9900k processor and motherboards based on the z390 chipset came out. In general, until there was a video card, a completely assembled new computer with a new power supply, RAM, hard drive, etc.
Exactly 20 days have passed, the manufacturer’s company sent a verdict «factory marriage». They took my card and gave me another one.
I put this miracle. Day, two, three, normal flight. And here comes the 4th, final day of the story. I play the game «Call of duty BO4» for a couple of hours, and at that moment the game freezes. I reboot and voila. All the same artifacts, and in my opinion they have become tougher. Reinstalling the system does not help. As soon as I install the Nvidia driver, I get these artifacts and the system constantly reboots.

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