Amazon.com: Customer reviews: MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 2080 8GB GDRR6 256-bit VR Ready Graphics Card (RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIO)

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

This thing is a BEAST. It has handled everything I've thrown at it from MK11, Starcraft with full setting and 2000 units, Black Desert at maximum ultra setting and everything else.
I can stream and play games at the same time at high quality no lagging this card is beautiful (also literally speaking) the RGB on it is subtle but pretty.
Forwarning this card is HEAVY. It comes with a under bar to help hold it up, it hold mine up pretty well, though some might want to put a little stand underneath. I would NOT recommend just letting the card hold itself with just the motherboard. Be very careful when installing, I recommend installing this card with the case on its side.
Also heads up this card is LONG. So long that I had to leave a fan off of the cpu liquid cooler vent becuase my case was about a half centimeter too small to fit both, so bear that in mind if you have a smaller case.
Overall I was nervous about getting this type of graphics card cause a lot of reviews say bad things about them crashing, I got a warranty plan for this just in case anything does happen in the future. But I'm glad to say that so far (*knocks on wood*) this card works beautifully and quietly. It's actually really quiet which is another plus.
Super happy with this card. :)

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Riverhills

Highly recommend

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

Was a bit concerned when I looked at the product number showing it was manufactured in October, as October was the first wave of the 2000 GPUs with defective problems.

But 2080 is actually nice and I learnt that 2080 is probably the card with lowest defective rate among all 2000 GPUs.

Also this specific card is a solid card. Came with for sure brand new (not opened for sure compared to my just received Rog Strix 2080 ti). The card is kinda silent and no bad noise that has been seen on other 2000 cards. The temperature is pure coldness.

One thing to be careful is that this card : the gaming Trio is probably the largest card in the market of 32.8cm. But other cards for example FTW3 is 30.2 ish, ROGis 30.4 ish, some others are like 26, 28. So you might want to make sure your case can actually hold your card without a problem, which is the case for me (Carbide740 - using a 360mm radiator+fans in the front and made this beast unable to settle in unless I remove one fan from the 360mm raditor)

So I either use a 360mm radiator with only 2 120mm fans, or I have to remove the gaming Trio and get a smaller card.

Hope the info helps, highly recommend the card, a balance of performance and budget.

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A. Wade

MSI Gaming X Trio 2080

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

This is a great card and the most powerful one I have owned.

Pros:
- Card runs quite cool due to the extremely large heatsink.
- Top notch performance on all games so far.
- Price was not terrible
- Fans do not always run due to the size of the heatsink.
- Comes with a support bracket.
- MSI RGB has great options.

Cons:
- This card is HUGE.

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Michael Wiesneth

Poor details on promotion

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

Card has worked great for the most part. Very pricey, but worth it if within your budget. My main issue is that a promotional credit was bundled with the purchase, however the code expired roughly a month after I received it with NO indication of the expiration date on the email with the delivered promotional code. Not sure if this is on Amazon or NVIDIA, but if you buy the card as part of a promotion download it IMMEDIATELY

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T. Noyes

Works great.. but the RMA took 8 weeks for second product

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

The product is beautiful.. and today it works like a charm. Unfortunately the first one I bought went bad in 2 weeks. Looked like christmas tree lights randomly blinking in background. I should have just returned via Amazon, but went the RMA route with MSI. WOW 6 weeks later and just now got the replacement. that is a long time. Until ray traced games come into play I recommend waiting on this. If I had it to over again I would but a 1080 card and just wait.

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Mike P

No compromises under 4k

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2018

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

This card will chew through the maximum settings of any game I've tired so far and will still average over 100fps, that is if the resolution is under 4k. At 4k I've found that I had to lower a setting or two one notch from maximum to get a steady 60 fps. The first thing to go is anti aliasing, turning it off completely will usually be enough to get a steady 60 fps at 4k. Scaled down to a 1080p monitor I don't see any jagged edges most of the time so getting rid of AA isn't a problem, but FXAA has been pretty capable of cleaning up the left over jaggies if there are some without much of a performance hit.

As for the hardware side of things, this card is HUGE. It's long, it's thick, it's heavy. So heavy in fact, that it comes with a bracket you screw onto the remaining expansion slot covers to support the card. All of that bulk is not for nothing though, as this card does not get above 70c and stays basically inaudible, I seriously can't hear it over my case fans which is a huge improvement over my old blower style gtx 970, which would get up to 80c under full load and sound like a leaf blower doing it. Below a certain temperature this card's fans don't even spin so it's completely silent, and because of the size of the heat sink, it really takes a lot to get it up to the temperature where the fans do start spinning. The brushed aluminum back plate looks really good and the RGB is a nice touch if you're into that sort of thing.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with this card. I know there's the whole controversy about the 20 series being over priced, especially for the relatively small performance gain over the last generation and I guess if you were lucky enough to snag a 1080ti when they were less than $500 then that would be a better deal but if you're upgrading from an older card or basically a card that isn't a 1080ti then I think it's solid upgrade.

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Dangerous Dirk

A high end performing GPU for people who aren’t messing around

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

I bought this amazing card to replace an MSI GTX 1080 aero that was more than adequate. However, being a long-time gamer who loved quake 2 immensely, decided to upgrade to an RTX card so I could play the recently re-released quake 2 RTX. This card is a beast in both performance and footprint. It’s almost 13” long (that’s what she said) and takes up 2 slots and another 2 if you use the supplied brace to help prevent the large GPU from sagging. This card is easy to install, it make sure you have enough room in your case. I needed to remove an unused hard drive support bracket to make it fit. Since I already had an MSI graphics card, all of the utility software was already installed except afterburner, which I installed. I also installed the LED lighting control software so I can sync up the lights from my MSI motherboard with the GPU. It’s a fluff benefit, but still
kind of cool if you have a window in your PC case to view the interior.

Performance is really why I bought this thing and I’ve not been disappointed. Ran some benchmarking tests and results came back off the charts. Playing games looks amazing and while I play mostly first person shooters, I also like The Golf Club 2 and the graphics on ultra are awesome. I’ve been able to ramp up the graphics level to ‘Ultra’ on every single game I’ve played and not one issue.

Not sure if it makes a difference or not, but I do have a g-sync monitor and this is an Nvidia card.

I know the price for this gaming x trio is up there, but it’s worth it. I wasn’t overly happy that 2 days after this card was delivered, they announced the RTX 2080 super cards for almost the same price, but oh well.

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Roland L

Outstanding looks and performance

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

I'm absolutely speechless on how awesome it looks. Everything in it's design screams premium and also, loved how MSI is slowly moving away from the Red accents. I know Red typically represents the gaming gear across the board, I just hate it when all these companies force it and ends up in either mismatching our build colors or, if you're like me you simply don't like the red color.

This card is chunky, make sure to check if you have plenty of room in your case if you're planning on buying one. It measures exactly 327 x 140 x 55.6 mm. My radiator placement is at the front of my case so, this along with it's front fans needed at least 380mm of clearance.

The card itself it's a nice upgrade from my GTX 1070. It dominates everything at 3440 x 1440p. It's silent and the cooling is perfect, considering some people are worried that one of the fans is smaller in comparison to the other 2.

I advise you to download MSI's Afterburner beta and use OC scanner. If you're on the conservative side, this API overclock tool is for you. After you open Afterburner > Press CTRL+F to get to OC scanner > Scan > Let it run until is done (time varies depending of your components and you may experience some screen flashing since it's running the stress tests for you) > Go back to Afterburner and crank up all the way Power and Temp limit. Enjoy easy overclocking. Be aware the OC scanner won't touch your GPU memory though.

This GPU comes with an Anti-sag brace support, making it a triple slot GPU...no...just...no. It looked way too bulky for my taste so I decided to use upHere's GPU Brace Support, which is a small stand that you can use even for SLI configs. Best part it uses a magnet instead of adhesive, kudos for that!

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Ciara Martin

Worth the saving!

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

I broke my founders edition gtx 1070 on accident and didn't know if I could fix it so I decided to look for a new gpu. Saw the new line up of rtx line up. I. HAD. TO. HAVE. THIS! I solely wanted it for its looks alone. Yes, I did know it was powerful card and I use it for 4k gaming or 1080/2k gameplay while streaming certain games without manually overclocking it. It hasn't gone passed 140~f. It is beautifully built so that there is space for air to get through, made with great materials like that aluminum back plate and beautiful heat pipes which make this graphics card surprisingly cooler than my nivida founders gtx 1070. It also passively cools. Meaning the fans don't turn on till a certain temperature reaches which has only done that once for me. Still haven't figured out how to change the rgb colors to anything other than the stock pastel rainbow cycle. I don't have a problem with it though because its why I wanted it originally. It even comes with a bracket to put under it to help the gpu sag beefy cards get which makes mine perfectly straight. I bought this solely with my own money from working my butt for Christmas. I got it late November and writing this review now to let you all wanting to consider this card a chance to know a true experience from a short period of time. Although there are many different cards you can get out there this one will last you a good bit if you think saving is worth it. I sure think it is.

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Bonnie

Exceptional Purchase from an Exceptional Seller

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021

Size: Boost Clock: 1860 MHzStyle: RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIOPattern: SingleVerified Purchase

With the current video card shortage I had to look elsewhere for a video card to put in the system I’m building. Came across this card and even contacted the seller because I had a question. I read the reviews and did my research on the seller before making my purchase. I saw a great deal of positives in using this seller from my research on them and decided to make my purchase. While the price was a bit steep, all 20 series graphics cards have been steep in price for a long time now. There was only one problem and the seller and I both resolved it on our respective ends as it had nothing to do with the seller. More a problem with the delivery driver which wasn’t the usual one that brings packages to my home. I ran a bunch of tests on the card and so far it runs smooth as butter. I did a number of stress tests and it passed with flying colors. The card even still had the new factory fresh smell when I removed it from its protective sleeve. The seller of this item is a seller I recommend, as from this purchase alone, I can see they care about the product arriving on time and as purchased. I will definitely check this seller in the future for tech purchases. Thank you for the awesome video card!

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