Testing MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z - More Muckis Ex-Factory and Faster Than FE | igorsLAB | Page 3

The new MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z is a well-designed manufacturer's design, actually playing in a different league than Nvidia's rather simple Founders Edition. Both the performance and the optics are right. Only for the price can MSI be less, even if this card is more elaborate than it should have been. We are testing the state of mass production with new BIOS...

Overclocking

In the factory state, the card sprints to 2010 MHz in a cold state, in order to perform fully warmed up with 1950 MHz in the closed housing. Since the power target of 190 watts already applies here, increases are of course only possible to a limited extent. With the exhaustion of the maximum power limit of 200 watts, you can then reach 2130 MHz at a constant rate with maximum fan speeds, if the card is approx. operated at full load for 30 minutes. Below 41°C GPU temperature, 2175 MHz are also loosely in it.

MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z 6G, 6GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP (V375-008R)

The memory can also be overclocked, but I will not give any guidance on Micron self-destruction here and now. Everyone has to take this risk with themselves and their card. And one more thing: as nice as the 1-click-tool may be, in the end you can still achieve the slightly better overclocking values in the end.

Benchmark results in FHD (1920 x 1080 pixels)

We see that the difference to the GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition is between 5 and 7 percent, depending on the game. If you then continue to overclock, it is between 3 and 4 percent, which then re-emerges. This, in turn, is no longer necessarily decisive about any playability, but only for the gallery of vanities, but in contrast to many other overclockings hardly eats bread anymore, because the card is already so crammed with power from the factory Was.