MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X Trio Review: Burly And Brisk
MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X Trio: GPU Compute, Rendering And Encoding Tests
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz - 5GHz, 8-Core) ASUS X670E Hero 32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Intel Arc A770 LE Radeon RX 6600 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT MSI RTX 4060 Ti Gaming Trio X GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon v23.10.01 NVIDIA Drivers v531.93 Intel Arc driver v101.4369 |
Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 Blender v3.5.0 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v3 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Company Of Heroes 3 Returnal Cyberpunk 2077 Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition F1 2022 Guardians Of The Galaxy |
LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks
LuxMark is a cross-platform, OpenCL-accelerated 3D rendering benchmark. It's a tool based on the open source LuxRender physically-based spectral rendering engine, which accurately models the transportation of light and supports high dynamic range. LuxRender features a number of material types to allow rendering of photo-realistic and artistic scenes. LuxRender is free software, licensed under the GPL, that offers plugins for packages like Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D and 3DS Max.
The MSI card turns in a performance functionally equivalent to the Founders Edition card here. Ordinarily we'd tell you not to pay too much mind to the placement here, as these cards are within the margin of error and performing essentially identically, but it does become a bit of a trend, as you'll see. It's not a bad showing—if you ignore that Arc A770 LE card up there. Spicy.
IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks
IndigoBench is based on Indigo 4's advanced rendering engine and offers both CPU and GPU rendering modes for its two built-in models. The standalone benchmark is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux and outputs results in M/Samples per second.
IndigoBench obviously favors GeForce cards, but it's also clearly a little sensitive to memory bandwidth. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti ends up falling behind the other cards—even the last-gen RTX 3060 Ti—but the MSI Gaming X Trio also falls behind the Founders Edition card in a bit of a curious turn.
Blender v3.5.0 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
