Summary
If you want to criticize the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio, this is already a high level of mockery and you have to look for a long time. Of course, you always find something, logically, but sometimes a positive feature also causes certain negative consequences. The card is very heavy, but the cooler does its name well.
The fan control is a bit tricky and you will probably wonder why the smaller fan starts much later, but the card remains quite quiet even under full load and the GPU is really cool. Together with the low temperatures and the high boost steps, the result is a very good performance ex-factory, which means first of all the top position of the three GeForce RTX 2080 tested so far.
I quickly summarize what I wrote in detail on the last pages, because the reader always needs a little reminder. And for the typical first-last-page readers, I would even have the hidden hint that it is well worth reading the rest in between. It's more interesting than you might think 😉
| Per | Cons |
| Good performance ex works Very good cooling performance Relatively quiet Elaborate RGB lighting Predominantly good components installed Thoughtful board layout Clean processing |
Very heavy (1.5 kg) Very long and high Power Target hardly uptoify (see Update) |
Conclusion
An explicit purchase recommendation is almost a must here and wouldn't be the nice good price, it could have been so nice for the customer. At just under 830 euros, however, you pay the mandatory RTX luxury tax properly, but if you want to be nice, you have to suffer. But you also get a card with a very high factory clock, which the card gets almost perfectly on the road ex works, because the cooling ensures that quite a few boost steps are lost.
All this can be done with left and without Radau, which is not necessarily self-evident. The MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is quite bulky, of course you have to keep that in mind. So around 33 cm and more you should already have free in length and the greater the distance to the housing side wall, the better the radiator performs. Everything under 5c m is abundantly alien to the world. Power consumption is not the topic of the day, but it is just acceptable.
Nevertheless, MSI has actually done everything right and if you are afraid of your bending motherboard, you should go looking for a suitable graphics card holder. Unfortunately, there is no such as one. And otherwise? Thermally, everything is really in butter, even the store. Which brings us to the end of this test, because there is nothing more to add.
Update from 11.01.2019 – 14:40
Upon request, I was confirmed that all retail cards with a corresponding holder will be delivered. My sample probably came directly from the factory and was checked back again before. Something will surely have been lost. Normally, the bracket is included in the scope of delivery.
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