MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio

Overview

The factory tweak is nice, but we're talking about `~2% extra performance at best compared to the founder edition cards. That is the reality these days. Tweaking wise the card did not disappoint though. Combined with that lovely and totally silent cooling and a really nice factory tweak we'll hand out a top pick award, as the product they MSI has released here really deserves that award. Albeit being hindered by a too high overall market price segment, it is a superbly designed product.

-- As reviewed by Guru of 3D

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Last revision on May 11, 2023

Reviewers Liked

Faster than GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Fans stop in idle
Deep-learning feature-set
Overclocked out of the box

Reviewers Didn't Like

High price
No Windows 7 support for RTX, requires Windows 10 Fall 2018 Update
Long and tall card, might not fit all cases

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By Guru of 3D on November 30, 2018

The differences in performance between the MSI RTX 2080 Duke OC and this RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio model up for review today are very marginal indeed. The main show of strength from the Gaming X Trio model is that it runs quite a bit cooler than the RTX...

By Play3r on November 13, 2018

And the winner is. It's never easy picking a winner from a selection of super fast custom cards. More often than not, there are no significant differences in performance, and it comes down to things like design, cooling prowess, and price. Individual...

By hardwarezone.com.sg on November 10, 2018

Last week, NVIDIA finally released their GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards. Taking a complete departure from traditional GPU design and creating a hybrid architecture that includes a range of new technologies to power the next-generation immersive...

By WCCFTech on September 26, 2018

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is listed online for $830. Faster than GeForce GTX 1080 Ti RTX Technology not gimmicky, brings tangible IQ improvements Fans stop in idle Deep-learning feature-set DLSS an effective new AA method Energy-efficient...

By techPowerUp! on September 19, 2018

Pricey, but fast! Both the GeForce RTX 2080 and the GeForce RTX 2070 have the same amount of VRAM. However, the RTX 2080 offers somewhat more performance than the RTX 2070. We have run a bevy of benchmarks using the Turing-based GPU from MSI to assess...

By NotebookCheck on April 10, 2019

Now that we have seen how the card performs its time to talk the end game. Priced at $849.99 at Newegg the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is listed above the FE card pricing by around $50 (MSRP for the MSI card is $829, note). What users get for the...

By overclockers.com on October 12, 2018

Despite its performance potential and forward-looking Turing architecture, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 isn't currently a straightforward GPU to recommend.With prices starting at £725, the second-tier RTX isn't meaningfully quicker in today's games...

By HEXUS.net on October 12, 2018

It turns out that the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio is all what I expected and then some. The attention to detail shown by MSI in the Gaming Trio series graphics cards (as well as the new TRI-FROZR thermal design) is quite impressive, and...

By Neoseeker on October 09, 2018

MSI's Gaming X Trio line has always been a high performance and feature-rich card and the ante has been raised even higher with the update to Nvidia's RTX line. Pictures really don't do MSI justice here, the wave-curved heatsink looks amazing under the...

By proclockers.com on September 28, 2018

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