MSI RTX 2070 Armor 8G Review

1. Introduction2. Unboxing and First Look3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Clock Speed11. Temperatures12. Acoustics13. Power Consumption14. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games15. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

I have to say, overclocking this card was the one area I was most looking forward to during my testing – all of the aftermarket RTX cards we have reviewed so far have been factory overclocked models, with little manual overclocking headroom. I was eager to see how much I could squeeze out of this reference clocked RTX 2070.

So, to overclock the card we used MSI Afterburner. We maximised the power limit and temperature target sliders, before adding +220MHz to the core and +700MHz to the memory. +240MHz to the core was stable in 3DMark but crashed when we tested Shadow of the Tomb Raider, so we settled with the 220MHz overclock.

3DMark and Games Testing

I have to say, I was very impressed with this overclock. The Fire Strike score went up over 2000 points (an extra 9%), while we also gained an extra 7FPS in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and another 5FPS in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Not bad at all!

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