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

While RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 have proven to be pretty limited overclockers, we had some good success with the RTX 3070 Founders Edition, and that continues here.

MSI allows the power limit of the Gaming X Trio to be raised to 104%, giving it another 14-or-so Watts to play with. I was able to add 120MHz to the core, and a whopping 1300MHz to the GDDR6 memory, bringing speeds up to 16.6Gbps.

This saw gains between 8-11% in Gears 5, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and Total War Saga: Troy. Not bad at all!

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