MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X Trio Review: Burly And Brisk

	MSI Gaming X Trio GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB: Starting At $449 MSI's outsized take on the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti offers extra flashy style and a huge cooler versus NVIDIA's Founders Edition card but it comes at a $50 price premium.
	Low Power Quiet Operation Super-Lower Temps Competitive Performance	Minimal Overclocking Unnecessarily Large Form Factor

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By now, you've hopefully had a chance to check out our review of NVIDIA's Geforce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition card. In short, it's more of an evolution than a revolution over previous products, but it's still arguably the fastest, most advanced GPU in its price class, with solid performance, excellent power efficiency, and a great feature set. If you're considering NVIDIA's Founders Edition card and thought that you might like a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, but also that the FE card seems a little bland, boy, do we have a GPU for you.

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Features & Specifications

Graphics Card	GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
Graphics Processing Clusters	3
Texture Processing Clusters	17
Streaming Multiprocessors	34
CUDA Cores (single precision)	4352
Shader FLOPS	22
Tensor Cores	136 (4th Generation)
Tensor FP8/INT8 TFLOPS/TOPS w/ Sparsity	353
RT Cores	34 (3rd Generation)
RT FLOPS	51
Texture Units	136
ROP Units	48
Base Clock	2310 MHz
Boost Clock	2535 MHz
Memory Clock	9000 MHz
Memory Data Rate	18 Gbps
L1 Data Cache/Shared Memory	4352 K
L2 Cache Size	32768 K
Total Video Memory	8 GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	128-bit
Total Memory Bandwidth	288 GB/s (554 GB/s effective)*
Texture Rate (Bilinear)	345 GigaTexels/second
Max Display Resolution	4K at 240Hz or 8K at 60Hz with DSC
Fabrication Process	4N NVIDIA Custom Process
Transistor Count	22.9 Billion
Connectors	3 x DisplayPort 1 x HDMI
Form Factor	Dual-Slot
Power Connectors	2x PCIe 8-pin cables (adapter in box) OR 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable
Required System Power Supply	550 Watts
Video Engines	1xNVENC (8th Gen), 1xNVDEC (5th Gen)
Power	7 W Idle, 13 W AV1 Video Playback, 140 W Average Gaming Power (AGP), 160 W Total Graphics Power (TGP)
Max GPU Temperature	90° C

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We have full coverage and a performance deep-dive on NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and its AD106 processor, in our review of the Founders Edition card yesterday (5/23). If you're curious about that, you can head over there to digest those juicy details. This review, instead, is going to be focused on how this MSI card is differentiated from the Founders Edition model and the possible benefits it brings.
The biggest difference is immediately obvious from the size of the box—it's the fact that this is certainly the biggest "x60"-tier graphics card we've ever handled. It's absolutely enormous; not far off of the size of some GeForce RTX 4080 cards. This cooler would probably be overkill on a GeForce RTX 4080, in fact.
Much like with the Founders Edition cards, the GPU board itself only extends a short distance across the cooler. The rest of that space is open on the backplate to allow air to flow directly through the GPU and into the airflow path of your CPU cooler. Fortunately, the AD106 GPU generates much less  heat to begin with versus NVIDIA's high-end GPUs, so it shouldn't be a problem, regardless.