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

Summary

If you want to criticize the MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z, this is in the end meckering at a high level and you have to look for possible vulnerabilities for a long time. Of course you always find something (see last week), but everything is solvable and in the end it was really chic. The boost here is a good servant of gaming performance due to the low temperatures of the GPU and one has to acknowledge if a card with manual overclocking could almost reach the 2.2 GHz mark, as long as the GPU only stays cool enough.

The new fan control system is a bit tricky, but it does exactly what it is supposed to do: to enable partial cooling optimized for the respective surface. Together with the low temperatures and the high boost steps, the result is a very good performance ex works, which has to be beaten first. On the optical side, a nice RGB fun is added, which of course does not contribute anything to the performance, but is just completely on trend.

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 is more interesting than you might think. 😉

Conclusion

Even if I would have liked to give the card in its current form a buying tip from a technical point of view, the price alone speaks against it and besides, there was something else in the last week. Since this would have a bit of a gimsy with a purchase tip award, I leave it for the above reasons with a verbal recommendation. The card is a good interpretation of Nvidia's smallest RTX card in its current state, because it performs very well and stays quite cool and quiet.

With approx. 430 Euro, however, is almost at the level of the cheapest GeForce RTX 2070, although here 2GB of graphics memory and so some shaders to the bigger sister are missing. But finding the blame solely with MSI would also be a bit unfair, because many current manufacturer designs are well above what Nvidia is looking for for the card as an EIA with approx. 370 Euros for the launch. The slightly simpler MSI RTX 2060 Gaming X dispenses with some RGB buzz, but otherwise has the same genes and costs on average around 20 euros less.

Now, however, the prices have to be put into perspective a little bit, as none of the cards are currently available in stores, but only from today the shipping has started. This means that the first final maps are expected to be landed and available in DE by cargo flight later this week. This surcharge for transport by air is probably paid in the end (at all manufacturers) also by the customer. So it is certainly worth waiting for. As a conclusion, I would like to leave that to stand.