MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio Review

1. Introduction2. MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark Port Royal6. Control7. Death Stranding8. The Division 29. Far Cry New Dawn10. Gears 511. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint12. Metro Exodus13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Shadow of the Tomb Raider16. Total War Saga: Troy17. Performance Summary (11 Game Average)18. Cost Per Frame Analysis19. Clock Speed20. Temperatures21. Acoustics22. Power Consumption23. Performance Per Watt24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

As for thermal performance, it immediately becomes obvious that using a cooler this large, even with one heatpipe missing compared to the RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio, is still more than enough to cool a 240W GA104 GPU. GPU temperature peaked at just 62C during my testing, which is a superb result and will surely take some beating from other AIB cards.

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