MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Time Spy Extreme5. Game Benchmarks6. Clock Speed7. GPU Temperatures8. Memory Temperatures9. Acoustics10. Noise-Normalised Temperatures11. Power Draw12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition for 30 minutes.

Looking at GPU thermals, here we are of course testing both the Gaming and the Silent BIOS modes. As expected, the Suprim Liquid X does deliver the best thermal results of any RTX 4090 so far, with the GPU hitting 60.3C using the Gaming BIOS, while it's about 3C warmer using the Silent BIOS.

There is, however, a slightly larger delta between the GPU and hot spot temperatures than we have come to expect, and the hot spot temperatures themselves aren't much if any better than the other cards we've tested. They're not bad by any stretch, but this sort of thing does make us wonder about either the flatness of the copper baseplate, or possibly the mounting pressure of the AIO onto the GPU die.

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