Testing MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z – More Muckis Ex-Factory and Faster Than FE | igorsLAB

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

The new MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z is already properly brushed on riot from the factory. Certainly also visually, but above all at the beat. And so MSI sends The smallest GeForce RTX card from Nvidia to the customer with a good beat, a sufficiently large power limit of course included. Because it almost scratches out of the box at the 2 GHz mark, even after full warming. What else (off) goes on and how loud and warm the final cards will then become, will clarify exactly this test.

With this card I really didn't make it easy, but as a retail card from the right mass production, the product that will soon be on the shelf is different from what was previously delivered to individual reviewers. Their maps from the MVT (Manufacturing Verification Testing) phase do not quite represent the final status, so my review and the results may differ significantly from other tests in some respects. I have to put that first.

Unboxing and first impressions

The 954 gram card is 24.8 cm long, measures 12.5 cm from top edge slot panel to top edge graphic card case and is 4.1 cm thick. In addition, there is another 0.5 cm for the backplate in brush look. The cover is made of plastic in the base and of course there is still a lot of (background) illuminated area on the front and bottom, which can be regulated by driver and can also be switched off. This includes the MSI-TwinFrozr-7 logo on the top.

The length results despite the actually only 21cm short PCB from the fan assembly with two 8.5 cm fans and 14 rotor blades, the cooling fins of the approximately one kilo heavy Boliden are arranged vertically and in two blocks. Four 6 mm heatpipes as nickel-plated copper composite material then distribute the waste heat to the said cooling fins, the upper edge of which deviates from the normal standard as a group structure.

Front

Back

Bottom

Top

Slot Panel

End

ISO

Box

The connection options are analogous to the reference of the normal average. You get three DisplayPort1.4 and one HDMI2.0 jack, but you do not have the USB-C jack on the slot panel. MsI delivers this card in contrast to the larger GeForce RTX 2070 Ti Gaming Z with only an 8-pin ATX power supply, but it should struggle well. But more on that. MSI gives the card a maximum power limit of 200 watts, ex works a Power Target of 190 watts is preset.

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: