At first glance, MSI engineers for the Twin line select cards rather above average, but such that the cooling of which is enough for a pair of classic coolers with a heatsink and heat pipes — RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. The minimum programme of such models is to give the ultimate gaming experience in Full HD, or try 2K or 4K resolution, but with reservations.


At least, that was the original idea, but then the company's engineers went further and decided to shorten the RTX 3070, which is usually cooled by three turntables, and belongs more to the elite of the gaming world in terms of status. In test results, it shows performance at the level of NVIDIA's main hit of the previous generation — the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Eight gigabytes of video memory limits its potential a little, but even with them, this card performs excellently in high 4K resolution.

If you do not know these details, it is easy to confuse a member of the MSI Twin family with some ultra-low-cost graphics card: an unremarkable plastic casing, a simple double Cooling system, no design frills, lighting, stickers in the box or other goodies. These usually buy "to drive into tanks" or just connect a monitor when there is no separate monitor output on the processor. From such a strange positioning and a total shortage, a unique situation was born when stores offer customers a formally entry-level card at a price of almost 2K dollars. When else will you see this?