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

Finally we come to manual overclocking. We again struggled with overclocking this GPU, and even though the system was stable when we added an extra 70MHz to the GPU core, we didn't actually see the GPU boost much higher, if at all – GPU Boost seemed to regulate the clock speed pretty strictly, preventing it from running any faster.

Thankfully, the GDDR6X overclocked pretty well with our sample, as we could add an extra 950MHz to the memory, bringing speeds to 21.4Gbps.

Still, performance gains to be had when running this overclock were not big. In Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, for instance, we saw frame rates increase by just 2%, though this did go up to 5% (at most) in Gears 5.

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