1. Introduction2. MSI RTX 3090 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. RTX On - Control20. RTX On - Metro Exodus21. RTX On - Shadow of the Tomb Raider22. DLSS On - Control & Death Stranding23. Productivity Part 124. Productivity Part 225. Clock Speed26. Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Power Consumption29. Performance Per Watt30. Overclocking31. Closing Thoughts32. 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.

In terms of thermal performance, it's not a shock to see this RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio running slightly warmer than the RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio. Both cards use the same cooler, but as we will see in our power testing, MSI has upped the power target by 30W with this RTX 3090. Therefore, the card runs 3C hotter in terms of peak temperatures.

MSI has told us it will be providing a new BIOS on its website, which will be more temperature oriented, however it will be up to the consumer to flash this BIOS to their GPU as it won't come as standard. If you want lower temperatures, manually increasing fan speed is going to be an easier way of achieving that result.

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