With the rapid development of the gaming industry, the performance of graphics cards is becoming more and more important. As a top graphics card brand, MSI has received wide attention for its RTX4060 series graphics cards. This article will conduct a simple test of the gaming performance of this graphics card to provide you with objective and realistic data so that you can easily understand the real strength of MSI RTX4060 Magic Dragon graphics card.
The MSI RTX 4060 Magic Dragon graphics card adopts the ultra-public version of the dual fan cooling design, and the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Magic Dragon graphics card adopts a well-known appearance design, which is about 24cm long and 11.5cm wide, and the overall texture is excellent. In terms of heat dissipation, MSI's classic dual-fan heat dissipation design TwinFrozr is adopted. As a ceiling with a dual-fan cooling design, the TwinFrozr has evolved to the 9th generation, and it has a good performance in terms of temperature and quietness.
The MSI RTX 4060 Magic Dragon graphics card adopts a dragon scale armor design, and the dragon claw marks on the black wind shroud form a claw mark shape, which increases the strength structure of the wind shroud and also makes the graphics card look cooler, very mecha style.
The MSI RTX 4060 Magic Dragon graphics card is designed with RGB Dragon Soul Faith Lamp on the side, and there is an ARGB lighting screen printed with "MSI" on the top of the wind shroud, and users can connect to the computer through the 5V ARGB interface next to the power supply interface to achieve the lighting synchronization effect of the whole machine.
RTX 4060 GAMINGX 8GB Magic Dragon graphics card is very simple. Users only need to plug the graphics card into the PCIe slot on the motherboard, connect the power supply and monitor, and enjoy a high-quality gaming experience. In addition, the graphics card supports the latest NVIDIA drivers, allowing users to easily manage graphics card parameters and optimize optimal performance through NVIDIA GeForce Experience software.
In terms of heat dissipation, MSI's classic dual-fan heat dissipation design TwinFrozr is adopted. As a ceiling with dual fan cooling design, the graphics fan adopts a new Blade 7th generation design, double ball bearings, and 3 fan blades connected together to form a unique ring design, which concentrates more airflow into the TWIN FROZR 9th generation cooling system.
3. Comparative evaluation of game performance
Basic parameters of this graphics card. The RTX 4060 GAMINGX 8GB Magic Dragon graphics card has 8GB memory capacity, comes with a 128-bit GDDR6 memory specification, and has 3072 stream processors. In addition, the graphics card has a Boost frequency of 2595MHz, a memory rate of 17Gbps, and a TDP power consumption of 115W.
MSI RTX 4060 Magic Dragon graphics card has the biggest performance improvement in Cyberpunk 2077 games with DLSS3 turned on, up to 204% higher than DLSS off. In addition, the "F1 22" game has high requirements for video memory at 2K resolution, but the 4 graphics cards tested only have a maximum of 8GB of video memory, and the explosive video memory is basically exploded together, which has little impact on the comparison results.
Through game testing, we found that compared with the RTX 3060 graphics card with the same positioning as the previous generation, the average game frame rate of the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Magic Dragon graphics card after DLSS3 is turned on can be increased by 57.52%, which exceeds the average performance improvement of 46.2% between the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 3060 Ti. Even without DLSS turned on, the RTX 4060 graphics card has a 25.15% performance improvement, which is also more than the RTX 4060 Ti's 19.6%.
Fourth, temperature and power consumption comparison and evaluation
In the temperature test, we perform a stress test through the FurMark software and record the temperature changes of the graphics card. The final result shows that the temperature of the RTX4060 graphics card is up to 68°C, while the temperature of the GTX1060 graphics card is up to 75°C. Obviously, RTX4060 graphics cards have more advantages in terms of temperature control.
In the power test, we compare the energy consumption performance of the two graphics cards by testing the actual power consumption of the platform. The results show that the power consumption of the RTX4060 graphics card is 115W, while the power consumption of the GTX1060 graphics card is 125W. Although the power consumption of RTX4060 graphics cards is relatively high, this power consumption level is acceptable considering their strong performance.
Analytical conclusions
Through this test, we can clearly see that MSI RTX4060 Magic Dragon graphics cards have a good performance in terms of game performance. Compared to similar graphics cards, it finds the perfect balance of price and performance. If you are a gaming enthusiast, the MSI RTX4060 Magic Dragon graphics card is undoubtedly a cost-effective product worth buying.