MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z 8GB Review: 210MHz faster than reference!

1. Introduction2. MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z 8G3. 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. Ray Tracing Tested11. DLSS Tested12. Clock Speed13. Temperatures14. Acoustics15. Power Consumption16. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games17. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. We use GPU-Z in tandem with the Powenetics Project to record the GPU core frequency during the Fire Strike Ultra runs – at the end, we are left with around 4300 data entries.

We calculate the average core frequency during the entire 20-run test to present here.

Despite the Gaming Z's rated boost clock being 1830MHz, we saw it average 1931MHz right out of the box. The card was remarkably consistent in its frequency, too – usually we see lots of fluctuations, but the Gaming Z held between 1920-1935MHz for almost the entire duration of the 3DMark stress test.

Obviously this is our first RTX 2070 card so we don't yet have any direct comparison data – but I would expect this to be one the highest clocked, if not the highest, RTX 2070 cards thanks to its hefty factory overclock.

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