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

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...

The fan stop works very cleanly with the start pulse, which you can also see nicely from the curves. New to Nvidia's reference specifications and the Thermal Guide is a separate fan control with (if necessary) two different fan curves. This means that with a card with two fans, you as a manufacturer can run each of the two fans individually with an optimal curve, which is now also the case with this card.

Compared to the MVT card, the latest BIOS has made the fan #1 over the GPU heatsink and the cooling frame for memory even slightly slower. The speeds fall from an average of approx. 1610 rpm on approx. 1460 rpm, i.e. a total of approx. 150 rpm. Nevertheless, the CPU temperature in turn drops by 2 degrees from 67°C to 65 °C, as the other fan has also been optimized #2.

The second fan sits at the end of the card and covers the larger block of the two-part cooler with its airflow. So you just shift the balance a little to the right. The speeds of the right fan increase from an average of approx. 1610 rpm to approx. 1840 rpm, i.e. approx. 230 rpm. This gives the voltage converters a further relief of another 4 degrees after the improved balancing!

Although the sound pressure level rises slightly as a direct result, it still remains at a very good level even under Furmark in the closed housing with almost 200 watts of waste heat. For this very reason, I also dispense with the more unrealistic curves of the open structure and prefer to represent the two different curves of both fans in comparison with each other.

Let's look at the measured values again in direct comparison to the Founders Edition as a tabular listing:

MSI RTX 2060
Gaming Z
Fan speeds Fan #1 Maximum 1472 rpm (Gaming, Peak)
Fan speeds Fan #1 Average 1460 rpm (warmed up)
Fan speeds Fan #2 Maximum 1852 rpm (Gaming, Peak)
Fan speeds Fan #2 Average 1840 rpm (warmed up)
Noise Emission (Air) Average 37 dB(A), Closed Case (Peak)
Noise Emission (Air) Idle Fan stop
Sound characteristic / hearing impression rushing, light engine noise
Coil-feathers/electric noises easily perceptible, only with high FPS numbers and load changes

 

Sound Spectrum

The measured 37 dB(A) are based on the measured 1460/1840 rpm in the closed housing. We have created the same gaming load on the open set-up in the measuring room, but the fans are fixed to the previously determined speeds in order to be able to adjust this value exactly. The result is significantly lower than the Founders Edition level, with cooling even significantly better at higher power consumption.

The soundscape is available, but despite the BIOS change pleasantly restrained. You can also perceive and measure light engine noise for noise (see peak on the spectral analysis above). The noise comes from the turbulence of the rotor blades and remains acceptable in spite of everything, if one keeps in mind the almost 200 watts, which have to be disposed of here professionally and relatively quietly as waste heat again

 

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

Computer nerd since 1983, audio freak since 1979 and pretty much open to anything with a plug or battery for over 50 years.

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