MSI RADEON RX 6750 XT GAMING X TRIO Review

How Much Does It Cost?

Coming in at around £650 or $820 for my American friends; the price places it as a competitor to the RTX 3060 Ti. Luckily for the 6750 XT, that happens to be the card that it was performing the closest to in our testing, constantly trading blows and battling it out to try to be the better performer.

Overview

What we gain over the 3060 Ti has an extra 4GB of VRAM, this is possibly the reason that the 6750 XT gained some extra performance in certain workloads. This gain in VRAM could easily be outweighed by the inclusion of DLSS on the NVIDIA cards, but this may be something that you don’t care about; so whilst personally I love having DLSS and use it in all the titles I can to get that extra bit of performance, you may not find it as useful as I do.

As I previously mentioned when we looked at the thermal and acoustic results, the card runs hotter than perhaps it needs to. Maybe by going into MSI’s own Afterburner software, you could tweak the fan curve of the card to get better cooling and better performance by sacrificing some acoustic performance; this is what I would see myself personally doing if I had this card. The noise level is already low enough that I can’t hear the card over gameplay being played through headphones, so gaining a couple of decibels would be easy to deal with.

When evaluating the performance at stock, I can’t help but feel that the card hasn’t reached its true potential. The 6750 XT struggles to keep up with the 3060 Ti in many workloads, but has its moments on top; as well as being able to beat out the 3060 Ti, the 6750 XT has some moments where it is able to beat the performance of the more expensive RTX 3070, this may be the saving grace for the card.

Should I Buy One?

The RX 6750 XT Gaming X Trio from MSI doesn’t perform quite where its price would place it, being just lower than where we would expect. But with so much leeway in cooling performance, I can see a justification for getting this card with the intention of changing the fan curve to gain extra performance. Maybe water cooling would provide a significant increase in performance on the card. With these considerations, I still can’t bring myself to say that this is a bad card because of the pure potential it shows; for those willing to tinker, this card could be a cheaper way to get RTX 3070 tier performance for 3060 Ti money. For those who aren’t looking to put the extra effort into getting the most out of their card and want a simple experience, or even if DLSS is an important factor for you; then this may not be the card for you.

If you are willing to make the changes to the fan curve, then I can quite easily recommend this card at its price point. It performs well enough out of the box that it’s not a significant downgrade from the 3060 Ti, but has enough potential that it could beat out the 3070. So, to answer whether or not you should buy one? That comes down to you at the end of the day and what you plan on doing with this card, ray tracing and DLSS? Get a 3060 Ti. Pure performance at this price point? Get the 6750 XT and have a play with the cooling to gain back some performance.