Prevented cannibal: MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X in review - quiet and cool | Page 7

I was looking forward to the respective interpretation of the board partner cards for the GeForce RTX 2060 Super and today I just start with an MSI RTX 2060 Gaming X, because it was the first card to arrive in the lab. Exactly and thoroughly with Tear Down as always...

Temperature gradients and boost clock in detail

The cooler is very good (and quiet), so that the temperatures of 62 °C in the open construction and 63 °C in the closed housing are described as really good, because you do not fall off your ears and the boost steps are largely preserved. The clock is still 1755 MHz even in the closed housing and after the final warm-up, which is good, but not world-shattering.

But you can still overclock, then you can also go with this card up to approx. 2030 MHz. There is no more, because you can hardly increase the power limit. At least the potent cooler guarantees more boost steps with fewer ear circuses than Nvidia's reference. But real OC would certainly look different.

This is no different with the stress test, because the waste heat is largely the same as the power consumption.

And now the whole thing again in sober numbers in table form, and I compare the map to the larger GeForce RTX 2070 in fairness:

	Initial MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X	Final value MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X	Final value Nvidia RTX 2060 Super Reference
Open Benchtable
GPU Temperatures	34 °C	62 °C	68 to 69 °C
GPU clock	1935 MHz	1845 to 1860 MHz	1755 MHz
Ambient temperature	22 °C	22 °C	22 °C
Closed Case
GPU Temperatures	33 °C	63 °C	71 to 72 °C
GPU clock	1920 MHz	1815 to 1830 MHz	1725 to 1755 MHz
Air temperature in the housing	25 °C	42 °C	41 °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 is absolutely confident in spite of everything, because it is not so much hotter in the end. What is really striking, however, is that there are no real hotspots, but the area is quite uniformly heated. On the contrary, below the GPU is even a real cold spot!