Packaging

The Card

MSI RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X Trio uses a very premium-looking cooling solution the company calls TriFrozr 3. The cooler shroud, made of metal and plastic bits, has plenty going on by the way of design cuts and creases. The backplate has a large opening, so nearly half of the card's airflow is vented right through the heatsink.


The card's main RGB lighting is neatly executed around the middle fan. The MSI logo in the top left is lit up, too.


Dimensions of the card are 33.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1.17 kg.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere).

The new 8th Gen NVENC now accelerates AV1 encoding, besides HEVC. You also get an "optical flow accelerator" unit that is able to calculate intermediate frames for videos, to smooth playback. The same hardware unit is used for frame generation in DLSS 3.


MSI opted for a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.

Teardown

The cooler is held together by a set of screws that hold the backplate, PCB, and cooler together.


This is easily the most elaborate cooling solution for an RTX 4060 Ti we've seen so far. A nickel-plated copper base-plate pulls heat from the GPU and memory, additional sets of such base-plates do so from the VRM. There are two large aluminium fin-stacks arranged on either ends of the heatpipes.


MSI uses five nickel-plated copper heatpipes.


A high quality metal backplate is used. This has a large opening that allows airflow from nearly half of the cooler to go right through.