Flash of Superlatives: MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z Review | Retro

1 - Unboxing, Daten, Testsystem 2 - Teardown und Analyse 3 - Benchmarks und OC 4 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 5 - Temperatur, Takt, Infrarot 6 - Lüfter und Lautstärke 7 - Zusammenfassung

WITH the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z, MSI has once again made a real catch. This is because there is a significant increase compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio, which has already been tested. The card again relies on a Triplefan cooler (2x 9.5 cm and 1x 8.5 cm fan) as well as the mandatory RGB effects and additionally on an OLED display at the top. It is also equipped with the TU102, has 11 GB Of GDDR6 graphics memory and offers everything else we already know from the trio. And of course also a decent more.

The 1.8 kg card is a proud 33 cm long, measures from top slot panel to top edge graphic card case a whopping 13 cm and is 5.5 cm thick. In addition, there is another 0.5 cm for the carbon backplate. This is almost a real triple slot design, because the slot aperture also has a lot of over-width. This means that it can already encounter space problems if housings are too small. The cover is made of plastic with optical accents such as Carbon and gold light metal applications and the indispensable RGB lighting. The appropriate unboxing video can be found here:

At the top, the willing buyer will find a nice OLED display, which, like RGB lighting, can be controlled via the MSI software and is also able to display various status values in real time. The remaining details can be found in the following picture gallery and of course also in the description of board details and coolers including a long tear-down video. I don’t want to pre-empt this, but I also want to get the first-page-last-page readers to turn over.

Front

Back

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Slot Panel

Accessory

Front Bottom

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Box

MSI delivers the card with three external 8-pin ATX power supply connectors. The complete connection is mandatory and we will also see why. All previous Turing cards with the TP102 did not reach 380 Watt++ power consumption for the entire card even with OC and raising the predetermined power target, which could also be changed this time with a little effort. But more on that later. The screenshot of GPU-Z gives us a first impression:

Technical data and comparison maps

At the end of this introduction, the maps of the new generation and those of the old generation in direct tabular comparison:

Test system and measurement methods

We have already described the new test system and the methodology in detail in the basic article “How We Test Graphics Cards, as of February 2017″ and therefore refer to this detailed basis for simplicity. Description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so. However, we have again improved CPU and cooling to largely exclude possible CPU bottlenecks for this fast card.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview: