MSI's Gaming X variant of the 6700 XT offers similar performance to that of every other 6700 XT we have tested. Where it really shines is the quality! You know what you are getting with MSI and let me tell you, this card has a good weight to it when you pick it up. Thanks to its Gaming X cooling solution, it should also some decent overclocks so you can get that bit more extra performance out of it.

MSI's card looks like the most economical of all the designs we've reviewed today. It doesn't go overboard with cooling, yet has sufficient cooling power to beat the AMD reference and operate at a good balance between noise and temperatures. Even though it's the only dual-fan custom design in our tests, the numbers are very respectable: 73°C and 29 dBA, a small temperature increase compared to more powerful triple-fan cards with bigger heatsinks, an increase small enough you'd never notice it subjectively. Noise levels are excellent, the card is whisper quiet even with the most demanding games.

As for the cooling solution, the new Gaming X design does a pretty good job keeping the card just slightly above 60C even in stress tests. For gaming, the average temperatures were around 55C while pushing the fan speeds to 100% led sub-50C temps which are quite impressive at the cost of more noise output. The power consumption of the Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming X is slightly higher than the GeForce RTX 3070 custom models but it does offer more performance in general.

The card stays cool throughout any amount of gaming and benchmark stress testing, with 55-70C depending on whether you have the card at stock fan settings or manually tweaked and cranked up.