MSI RTX Gaming X Trio 2080 and 2080Ti Review

Test Setup

In a slight change to our regular graphing, today we’ll be sorting our graphs by the 4K result. These two cards are very much the flagship nVidia products, and so seeing how they perform at 1080P, when lots of cards already have plentiful performance there, would be pointless. Nobody is spending the thick end of a grand of a GPU to run it on a 15″ monitor, and if you are, you have more problems than the way we sort our graphs.

MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 2080
MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 2080Ti
Intel i7 6850K
ASUS X99 Strix
Corsair ROG Dominator Platinum 3200
Corsair RM1000i
Corsair LX 512GB OS
Corsair LS 480GB x2 Raid0 Games
Corsair H100i V2
Windows 10

  

Overclocking

RTX 2080

With all that power and tremendous cooling on hand the MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 2080 really overclocks well, and without either deafening us or turning the room into a makeshift sauna. It isn’t only the peak clock speed that is impressive either, as we’ll see on the next page.

  

RTX 2080Ti

With more hardware under the hood we didn’t expect the 2080Ti to clock as well as its sibling and it doesn’t. It does, however, reward a bit of time and effort taken with much bigger clock speeds than we saw from the Founders Edition cards, and at a much lower temperature and quieter volume. Given how incredibly tight for time we were reviewing these cards we’re sure that this is a great platform upon which to build, particularly if you have more time than us to fine tune it still further.