MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio

W1zzard · Feb 10, 2023

The MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio is the most affordable custom-design available right now, priced at $1700 and in-stock. We're putting this monster card on our new 2023 Raptor Lake test bench to check if MSI compromised anywhere, or if this is the RTX 4090 you should look at, if you don't want to overspend.

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Selaya · Feb 10, 2023

this looks nothing like an msi gaming card ...
shame that they tossed out the iconic polygon design for this ...

Jism · Feb 10, 2023

Is'nt the capped 480W one of the reasons from Nvidia why EVGA stepped out?

Space Lynx · Feb 10, 2023

@W1zzard On your Witcher 3 test for this card, is this the old Witcher 3? Or the new Witcher 3 Enchanced Edition? Something tells me the 4090 would not be getting that kind of fps in the new Enhanced version, but I am unsure.

80-watt Hamster · Feb 10, 2023

From the conclusion:

In a pure raster scenario, with ray tracing enabled,

Is this correct? Wouldn't pure raster be without RT?

P4-630 · Feb 10, 2023

Must win the lottery first....

Xeanoa · Feb 10, 2023

Am I the only one who is more intested in the up-to-date relative benchmark data than the card tested here?

KrazyT · Feb 10, 2023

@W1zzard : Maybe a stupid question, but the Power Comsumption in V-Sync 60Hz is in gaming scenario ?

qubit · Feb 10, 2023

Once again, MSI puts out a superb product that's whisper quiet. My 2080 SUPER is a Gaming X Trio and is quiet and reliable like this. Now, if it only wasn't totally out of my price range I'd snap this up (after first upgrading my ancient 2700K CPU).

Space Lynx · Feb 10, 2023

qubit said:
Once again, MSI puts out a superb product that's whisper quiet. My 2080 SUPER is a Gaming X Trio and is quiet and reliable like this. Now, if it only wasn't totally out of my price range I'd snap this up (after first upgrading my ancient 2700K CPU).

yeah my 6800 xt trio z is pretty rock solid honestly.

lightofhonor · Feb 10, 2023

KrazyT said:
@W1zzard : Maybe a stupid question, but the Power Comsumption in V-Sync 60Hz is in gaming scenario ?

I see it in the power consumption section. Is it somewhere else?

W1zzard · Feb 10, 2023

Space Lynx said:
@W1zzard On your Witcher 3 test for this card, is this the old Witcher 3? Or the new Witcher 3 Enchanced Edition? Something tells me the 4090 would not be getting that kind of fps in the new Enhanced version, but I am unsure.

This is the old witcher .. too much trouble with the enhanced version, I'll wait for more patches. Will update the description

80-watt Hamster said:
From the conclusion:

Is this correct? Wouldn't pure raster be without RT?

Correct. Pure raster = only raster = raster without RT. I meant to type "without" and not "with". Fixed, thanks!

P4-630 · Feb 10, 2023

qubit said:
My 2080 SUPER is a Gaming X Trio and is quiet and reliable like this.

I still have a 2070 Super Gaming X Trio without issues!
I would buy an MSI GPU again, just not this 4090 one.

W1zzard · Feb 10, 2023

KrazyT said:
@W1zzard : Maybe a stupid question, but the Power Comsumption in V-Sync 60Hz is in gaming scenario ?

Yeah, this is Cyberpunk 2077 at 1920x1080, capped to 60 FPS

Rokugan · Feb 10, 2023

Selaya said:
this looks nothing like an msi gaming card ...
shame that they tossed out the iconic polygon design for this ...

It's garbage, I think it's actually one of the very few models that doesn't have a vapor chamber in the cooler...

qubit · Feb 10, 2023

W1zzard said:
Yeah, this is Cyberpunk 2077 at 1920x1080, capped to 60 FPS

This is a stroll in the park for this monster card.

W1zzard · Feb 10, 2023

qubit said:
This is a stroll in the park for this monster card.

and yet the ranking does not follow overall performance. This is a great test for how well the energy savings features work with lower loads

Selaya · Feb 10, 2023

Rokugan said:
It's garbage, I think it's actually one of the very few models that doesn't have a vapor chamber in the cooler...

i am speaking of the visible design of the cooler, not its internals

W1zzard · Feb 10, 2023

Xeanoa said:
Am I the only one who is more intested in the up-to-date relative benchmark data than the card tested here?

Do send me a PM if you spot a result that looks suspicious. I think I found and retested everything, but sometimes I miss something

Rokugan said:
It's garbage, I think it's actually one of the very few models that doesn't have a vapor chamber in the cooler...

The review clearly explains at least 2 times that it's not a vapor-chamber, and yet the cooler is definitely not garbage, and the fan settings are awesome

qubit · Feb 10, 2023

W1zzard said:
and yet the ranking does not follow overall performance. This is a great test for how well the energy savings features work with lower loads

Oh yeah, I'm not criticising your testing methodology at all, just emphasizing how powerful this monster card is that it will barely notice. I soo want it...

thewan · Feb 10, 2023

The card was released in October 2023 and has established itself as "the best, at a price."

Don't forget to credit Avalanche. Our resident W1z gained some new tricks and a decent powerup while playing Hogwarts. He traveled into the future, flew to Taiwan on a broom, sneaked around MSI HQ with an invisibility cloak, used all kinds of spells on random security guards and staff, overcoming other obstacles and barriers as well, before finally defeating the last boss, the MSI CEO, in his posh office, to get his hands on this card for your review and entertainment.

W1zzard · Feb 10, 2023

thewan said:
Don't forget to credit Avalanche. Our resident W1z gained some new tricks and a decent powerup while playing Hogwarts. He traveled into the future, flew to Taiwan on a broom, sneaked around MSI HQ with an invisibility cloak, used all kinds of spells on random security guards and staff, overcoming other obstacles and barriers as well, before finally defeating the last boss, the MSI CEO, in his posh office, to get his hands on this card for your review and entertainment.

Fixed

qubit · Feb 10, 2023

@W1zzard you wrote:

With this review we're also introducing our brand-new GPU 2023.1 test suite, which uses a Core i9-13900K

I'm wondering, if the upcoming AMD 7x3D series prove to be significantly faster, will you be changing your test system to that CPU?

thegnome · Feb 10, 2023

Another gimped MSI card... Looks worse than the last gen card (with less RGB) and a gimped power limit...

But I'm glad they can cool well at low noise, like my own MSI card. That's a big plus from their cards.

Neizel · Feb 10, 2023

Probably

qubit said:
@W1zzard you wrote:

I'm wondering, if the upcoming AMD 7x3D series prove to be significantly faster, will you be changing your test system to that CPU?

He will probably test each platform to get the most of AMD and Intel have available at that launch. A nice head to head comparison for the gaming crown.

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