IT168 evaluation In the post-DIY era, it is useless to rely solely on stacking, overclocking, and rigid features to make products. The focus of the product should be on the game, in order to improve the FPS value, improve the game player experience as a criterion, to create a player exclusive product is king. For this reason, MSI introduced the GAMING Z series graphics cards. The “Z†in the model designation was taken from the English word “Zenithâ€, which means the peak and represents the ultimate form of the MSI GAMING series of graphics cards.
To say GAMING Z is the ultimate form, it is better to say that GAMING Z is GAMING's highest belief version. Just as NVIDIA has the FE version, MSI GAMING Z also brings more GAMING beliefs. But in the end it is the GAMING series. It would be impossible to say that GAMING Z and GAMING X have a great difference.
First of all, from the perspective of appearance, using the same cooling module TwinFrozr VI, the radiator shell is the same, from the front, it is really impossible to distinguish who is who, and even the side is also very difficult to see the difference.
The biggest difference comes from the backplane, the integrated reinforced backplane, but GAMING Z is not simple! The back panel is equipped with an RGB LED GAMING Dragon Shield Light, and the top of the card RGB LED GAMING Dragon Soul Light The same can be changed in 16.8 million colors, allowing users to create their own favorite, most personalized and unique appearance.
At the same time GAMING Z's frequency preset frequency is much higher, OC mode core Boost frequency can reach 1860MHz, and Gaming mode can reach 1835MHz, which is much higher than the frequency of GAMING X graphics card. Of course, if you compare the public version of the frequency, then GAMING Z graphics performance will be stronger on a few files.
TwinFrozr VI Radiator
Thanks to excellent heat dissipation and noise control, Twin Frozr radiators have always been quite popular. The 6th-generation Twin Frozr VI heatsink consists of a brand new blade 4 fan, large-scale heat sink fins, an 8mm super heat pipe, a large area of ​​pure copper nickel plated base and high-quality X thermal grease.
The Blade 4 fan continues the previous generation of drainage blades and traditional blades. Drainage fans can introduce more airflow through special special curvature and wide blade design. At the same time, traditional blades effectively use the large amount of airflow introduced by the drainage fan to guide down, enhance wind pressure, and make the airflow stronger and more powerful.
In addition, compared to the traditional cooling fan, the blade 4 fan is equipped with double ball bearings, double ball bearings bring good noise control and a smoother experience; at the same time, its service life is several times that of oil-bearings, and double balls are currently used. Bearings are generally used only on flagship products.
The Twin Frozr heat sink is also exceptionally good on its heat sink. The first is a nickel-plated copper base that touches the GPU surface. The smooth, flat surface is more fully in contact with the GPU surface, coated with high-grade grease, and the copper base can absorb the heat generated by the GPU.
Next, a superconducting heat pipe with a diameter of 8mm is used together with four 6mm heat pipes, and a specially designed square heat-conducting contact surface design can greatly improve the heat-conducting efficiency between the nickel-plated copper base and the heat-dissipating fins.
Finally, a reflow soldering technique is adopted between the heat sink fins and the heat pipe to allow the heat to be transferred to the fins faster, and the fins are used to make the fins compact and tidy. With the aid of air-flow guidance technology, more air is guided to the vicinity of the heat concentration area, and the heat is taken away more quickly to improve the heat dissipation efficiency.
Of course, even if the active cooling is so strong, passive cooling must also be brought. GAMING Z is equipped with PCB heat-strengthened armor, independent and efficient memory cooling board, independent aluminum power supply heat dissipation board, and back reinforced metal back board.
MSI GTX1070 GAMING Z workmanship
GAMING Z and GAMING X use the same set of PCB solutions. The ultra-shouldered PCB uses a larger graphics card and the right side is an 8+2 phase power supply design. The auxiliary power supply is equipped with 6+8Pin, which provides an additional 75W power supply compared to the public version of the single 8Pin design.
The 8+2 phase power supply design material is quite good, with a full range of solid state capacitors, SFC super ferrite choke inductors, and ultra-thin MOSFETs. The 8-phase core power supply master is UPI's uP9511P eight-phase PWM master, and each phase power supply is also equipped with a separate driver IC. This power supply combination is commonly used on high-end graphics cards.
At the same time, we can see that this PCB number is V330, and the PCB version of the video card that received the test is version 5.0. We believe MSI will officially go public after a lot of version changes before it is listed on GAMING.
Cool Dragon Soul LED Light Effect
Dragon Soul Light
Dragon Shield Light
Dragon Shield Lights and Dragon Soul Lights form a cool Dragon Soul LED light effect, and both can be individually equipped with 16.8 million colors through the GAMING APP software to create their own unique and unique look.
MSI GTX1070 GAMING Z test
Furmark full load
MSI GTX1070 GAMING Z graphics card Furmark full load test temperature performance is quite good, full load will also look like 67 degrees, and the frequency is still running at 1860MHz, fan speed is not 50%, the noise performance is quite good.
Default overclocking mode
Overclocking mode
Game mode
Overclocking mode games
By default, we find that the MSI GTX1070 GAMING Z graphics card is in overclocking mode, so the frequency preset will be higher. At the same time, we can see that when the 3DMARK runs, the core frequency of the MSI GTX1070 GAMING Z graphics card has reached 2025MHz, and by default, it has been able to run 2G too frequently.
Summary: It is because MSI GAMING series graphics card products are quite good, so MSI will launch the high-level MSI GAMING Z ultimate version. Or we should say that this is the only version of the MSI GAMING belief. The dragon's totem can be seen everywhere. The materials used for the work are better than the non-public cards. In particular, the TwinFrozr VI cooler is really good. As for buying, do you think this video card is worth it? Does belief need so many reasons?
MSI's understanding of the word GAME is the deepest, from the motherboard, video card, and then to all-in-one computer, even notebook products are brought on the GAMING series. Recently it also set a new record high sales, especially the strongest sales of graphics cards and notebook products. With the gradual rollout of NVIDIA 10 Series graphics cards, we believe MSI's graphics card sales will be even higher. Then we can have more fun products.