MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X Overview: Ada Chills Out

	MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X: Beginning At $1,749 This liquid-cooled GeForce RTX 4090 from MSI is smaller, quieter, and runs cooler than NVIDIA’s personal Founder’s Version, however it’s additionally costlier.
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We have been capable of take the wraps off of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 Founder’s Version card yesterday, and got here away completely impressed. Should you haven’t learn our deep-dive evaluate of NVIDIA’s personal GeForce RTX 4090 (and our earlier protection of the Ada Lovelace GPU structure) we strongly counsel doing so proper now, if solely to glean as a lot technical details about NVIDIA’s newest wunderkind as doable. Right this moment, as playing cards start to go on sale, we get to fill in one other piece of the Ada Lovelace puzzle and show-off an RTX 4090 from certainly one of NVIDIA’s key companions, MSI – extra particularly the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X.

Should you observe the GPU area in any respect, over the previous couple of weeks you’ll doubtless have seen an array of fascinating, and generally huge, third-party GeForce RTX 4090 playing cards. Whereas NVIDIA’s Founder’s Version is simply barely wider than the previous-gen RTX 3090, a few of NVIDA’s companions have gone buck-wild, and produced gargantuan, slot-crushing, PCB sagging beasts. Whereas MSI does have some beefy air-cooled RTX 4090s coming down the pipe, the RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X we’ll be displaying you right here at this time takes a distinct strategy. As its title suggests, the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X is (principally) water-cooled and incorporates a standalone AIO setup pre-installed on the GPU and reminiscence. The entire meeting nonetheless requires some particular lodging inside a chassis, however the card itself is way smaller in each dimension over the Founder’s Version and most different accomplice boards, and it provides one other extra benefits too.

Take a look at the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X’s in our fast unboxing video, take a look at the specs, after which we’ll dig in just a little deeper and see what the cardboard can do. Fast tease: this one’s a barn burner…

MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X Options & Specs

At its core, the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X doesn’t stray removed from another GeForce RTX 4090. All the predominant options and applied sciences supported by the Ada Lovelace structure are current, and it options the identical 24GB GDDR6X reminiscence configuration, although the out-of-box clocks on this card are considerably larger than NVIDIA’s reference specs.

The MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X can really function in three completely different modes. There’s a dual-BIOS change on the highest fringe of the cardboard that provides customers the flexibility to decide on between “Gaming” and “Silent” modes (which increase as much as 2,625MHz) and should you set up the MSI Middle app, and “Excessive Efficiency” mode can be accessible that enables the cardboard to spice up as much as 2,640MHz. In follow, all of those modes carried out equally, although the fan velocity curve is considerably extra tame in Silent mode. Even nonetheless, the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X is super-quiet in Gaming mode and the GPU runs exceptionally cool – there’s actually no purpose to run in Quiet mode in our opinion. And even with out MSI Middle put in, we routinely noticed increase clocks a lot larger than the rated specs. As considerate as it’s that MSI gives customers some selection concerning clocks and cooling, the general expertise isn’t a lot completely different between the modes being provided.

The MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X card measures 280 x 140 x 43 mm and the 240mm radiator and fan meeting are 274 x 121 x 55 mm. The sleeved tubing is 11.2 mm in diameter and is about 470mm in size (or roughly a foot and a half). All instructed, the cardboard is way more manageable than any air-cooled GeForce RTX 4090 we’ve seen. Clearly, the radiator would require mounting in a few fan places and your chassis might want to have the area for it, however nearly any fashionable enthusiast-class chassis ought to have the mandatory lodging. When it comes to really setting all of it up, nevertheless, there’s nothing particular required – the AIO cooler and card are all powered by the slot and 12-pin energy connector. There should not extra energy feeds or fan connections obligatory. Like NVIDIA, MSI additionally included a 4 x 8-pin PCIe energy adapter with the cardboard, that’s form of unruly, however next-gen energy provides with the mini 12-pin feed are coming that may ultimately negate the necessity to use the adapter.

The liquid-cooler consists of a micro-fin copper base and black, aluminum radiator. Two 120mm followers are preinstalled on the radiator and there may be and extra fan on the cardboard, together with some heatsinks to assist cool the VRM. All instructed, this cooling meeting works nice for the RTX 4090. The followers spin down utterly when idle or underneath a light-weight load, and even when totally loaded for lengthy durations, the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X stays cools and quiet. As you’ll see just a little later, temperatures on this card are far decrease than NVIDIA’s Founder’s Version.

The bodily design of the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X options a number of silver, textured / brushed aluminum and sharp angles. There’s a full aluminum backplate on-board that provides rigidity and aids in cooling, and configurable RGB lighting shines by way of the one aspect of the fan shroud and thru a diamond-shape cutout on the rear. It’s a superb wanting setup general, should you dig AIO liquid cooling setups for GPUs.

Outputs on the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X are an identical to different 4090’s (triple DisplayPorts and a single HDMI port), although the case bracket is clearly smaller. Whereas all air-cooled GeForce RTX 4090’s require three slots, the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X requires solely two.

With all of that out of the best way, what do you say we see how this card performs?