Testing MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z - More Muckis Ex-Factory and Faster Than FE | igorsLAB | Page 5

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...

Temperature gradients and boost clock in detail

The cooler really lives up to its name and keeps the card pleasantly cool. After all, only 65°C in open construction and a maximum of 66° in the closed housing are now nothing that would have to scare you, on the contrary. The higher Power Target ex works ensures that the clock still plays along quite well, because fewer boost steps are lost due to the low temperatures. The Founders Edition is much slower and, above all, much hotter.

And now the whole thing again in sober numbers in table form:

	Initial MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z	Final value MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z
Open Benchtable
GPU Temperatures	32 °C	64-65 °C
GPU clock	2010 MHz	1965 MHz
Ambient temperature	22 °C	22 °C
Closed Case
GPU Temperatures	34 °C	65-66 °C
GPU clock	2010 MHz	1950 MHz
Air temperature in the housing	25°C	43°C

Board Analysis: Infrared Images

The following image gallery shows all infrared images for the gaming and the torture loop in the open structure and in the closed case. The differences are visible, but the cooler still acts quite confidently, because it is not so much hotter in the end. I had already published the story on cooling and various IR images in my article "When the editor becomes a developer", so that today's result differs significantly from that of the small series cards for the press. In a very positive sense, by the way.

When gaming you can hardly get the memory cooler, so you can live well with it and also have enough thermal reserves for whatever I know 🙂

Even in the closed case, all this still fits and even the VRM hotspot, which was the worry child of the MVT cards, remains well below the magic 95°C mark.

Only during the stress test does one of the control circuits get a bit hot, but the manufacturer now has a solution for this too, which will then show us the last picture.

This statement also applies, of course, to the stress test in the closed enclosure, whereby no one is likely to play furmark for more than 30 minutes.

The pad strip in the backplate now does a lot of work you can see it very well due to the recess of the backplate, where the temperatures are now leveled by the enlarged cooling surface. That's how it has to be, then it works with the reviewer and the customers 🙂