MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio Review

1. Introduction2. MSI RTX 3080 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. Clock Speed20. Temperatures21. Acoustics22. Power Consumption23. Performance Per Watt24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

Turning our hand to overclocking, we use MSI Afterburner to see how much more we could squeeze from this GPU. The answer is ‘not a lot', at least in terms of GPU frequency where we could only add a +40MHz offset. The GDDR6X memory is definitely more amenable to an overclock though, where we managed a +850MHz offset, bringing speeds to 20.7Gbps.

This overclock didn't net us huge gains, with an FPS boost between 3-4% in the games we rested. However, when we consider the card already ships with a decent factory overclock, performance was up to 9% higher than the Founders Edition at stock speeds.

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