MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X & SUPRIM Liquid X Review – When Air & Water Collide!

Firestrike

Firestrike is running the DX11 API and is still a good measure of GPU scaling performance. In this test, we ran the Extreme and Ultra versions of Firestrike which runs at 1440p and 4K and we recorded the Graphics Score only since the Physics and combined are not pertinent to this review.

3DMark Firestrike Extreme Graphics
Score
0
9000
18000
27000
36000
45000
54000
0
9000
18000
27000
36000
45000
54000
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X OC

49k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X OC

48.8k
RTX 4090 OC

48.1k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X

46.2k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X

46.1k
RTX 4090

45.3k
RX 6950 XT

28.4k
RX 6900 XT

27.3k
RX 6800 XT

25.7k
RTX 3090 Ti

24.9k
RTX 3090

23.9k
RTX 3080 Ti

23.2k
RX 6800

21.3k
RTX 3080 12 GB

21.3k
RTX 3080 10 GB

21.1k
RTX 2080 Ti

16.2k

 

3DMark Firestrike Ultra Graphics
Score
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X OC

27.3k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X OC

27.2k
RTX 4090 OC

26.5k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X

25.2k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X

25.1k
RTX 4090

24.9k
RX 6950 XT

14.9k
RX 6900 XT

13.6k
RX 6800 XT

12.8k
RTX 3090 Ti

12.8k
RTX 3090

12.5k
RTX 3080 Ti

12.1k
RX 6800

10.5k
RTX 3080 12 GB

10.5k
RTX 3080 10 GB

10.1k
RTX 2080 Ti

8k

Time Spy

Time Spy is running the DX12 API and we used it in the same manner as Firestrike Extreme where we only recorded the Graphics Score as the Physics score is recording the CPU performance and isn’t important to the testing we are doing here.

3DMark Time Spy Graphics
Score
0
7000
14000
21000
28000
35000
42000
0
7000
14000
21000
28000
35000
42000
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X OC

38.4k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X OC

38k
RTX 4090 OC

37.1k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X

35.9k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X

35.8k
RTX 4090

35.7k
RTX 3090 Ti

21k
RTX 3090

19.7k
RTX 3080 Ti

19.3k
RX 6950 XT

19k
RX 6900 XT

18.5k
RTX 3080 12 GB

18.1k
RTX 3080 10 GB

17.8k
RX 6800 XT

17.6k
RX 6800

15.1k
RTX 2080 Ti

14.1k

 

3DMark Time Spy Extreme Graphics
Score
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X OC

20.7k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X OC

20.6k
RTX 4090 OC

20.4k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X

19.9k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X

19.5k
RTX 4090

19.2k
RTX 3090 Ti

11.2k
RTX 3090

10.1k
RTX 3080 Ti

9.8k
RX 6950 XT

9.4k
RX 6900 XT

9.3k
RTX 3080 12 GB

9.1k
RTX 3080 10 GB

8.9k
RX 6800 XT

8.6k
RX 6800

7.2k
RTX 2080 Ti

6.6k

Port Royal

Port Royal is another great tool in the 3DMark suite, but this one is 100% targeting Ray Tracing performance. It loads up ray-traced shadows, reflections, and global illumination to really tax the performance of the graphics cards that either has hardware-based or software-based ray-tracing support.

3DMark Port Royal Score
Score
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X OC

27.6k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X OC

27.5k
RTX 4090 OC

27k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X

25.9k
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X

25.8k
RTX 4090

25.3k
RTX 3090 Ti

14.8k
RTX 3090

12.9k
RTX 3080 Ti

12.9k
RTX 3080 12 GB

11.6k
RTX 3080 10 GB

11.3k
RX 6950 XT

9.9k
RX 6900 XT

9.8k
RX 6800 XT

9.1k
RTX 2080 Ti

8.6k
RX 6800

7.6k

 

3DMark Pure Ray Tracing Feature Test
Average
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X OC

146.9
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X OC

146.6
RTX 4090 OC

146
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X

142.4
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid X

142.2
RTX 4090

141.6
RTX 3090 Ti

59.2
RTX 3090

55.7
RTX 3080 Ti

55.1
RTX 3080 12 GB

48.9
RTX 3080 10 GB

46.8
RX 6950 XT

31.2
RTX 2080 Ti

30.4
RX 6900 XT

29.6
RX 6800 XT

26.8
RX 6800

21.7