MSI RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio Review

1. Introduction2. MSI RTX 3090 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. RTX On - Control20. RTX On - Metro Exodus21. RTX On - Shadow of the Tomb Raider22. DLSS On - Control & Death Stranding23. Productivity Part 124. Productivity Part 225. Clock Speed26. Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Power Consumption29. Performance Per Watt30. Overclocking31. Closing Thoughts32. View All Pages

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes. We use GPU-Z to record the GPU core frequency during the Time Spy runs. We calculate the average core frequency during the 30 minute run to present here.

In terms of clock speed, we can see slightly erratic behaviour from the RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio. In terms of average clock speed, it's fine, delivering 1832MHz across the 30 minute stress test. However, we can see from the scatter graph that the clock speed was bouncing around fairly aggressively – usually we'd expect a smaller spread, but the Gaming X Trio was dropping below 1700MHz at points, before bouncing back up to over 1900MHz the next second.

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