MSI RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio Review

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

The reason you may want to bump the fan speed a little to reduce temperatures, is because MSI's default fan curve is very relaxed – it runs the fans at just 1500rpm, producing just 35dB of noise according to our sound meter. This is marginally louder than the RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio as the fans are spinning about 140rpm faster, but I couldn't hear the difference myself – it just showed up on our sound meter. This means there is plenty of headroom to tweak the fan curve to reduce temperatures, while still keeping noise levels low.

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