Packaging

The MSI RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio’s box was more of a traditional shape than the past two Founders Edition cards we have had in the office. MSI also has the box for the 4080 Gaming X Trio looking a lot like past MSI Gaming video cards. The front of the box has a huge picture of the card right in the middle which is great for shopping in retail. The picture has the RGB lighting on and to go with that in the background there are neon-like RGB lines. The top left corner has the MSI Gaming dragon badge and below the card picture in the bottom left you have the Gaming X Trio model name. Then the bottom right has the black and green Nvidia wrap around which has the GeForce RTX 4080 model name and the 16GB GDDR6X above that.

Around on the back, the wrap-around wraps around to the back with the green and grey section at the bottom that has a few of the basic Nvidia features. MSI has a very small specification listing here as well but it just tells you the memory size, memory bus size, and display outputs. None of the important information like the card dimensions or the overclock speeds are listed here. Above all of that MSI has broken down some of their key features for things like the Tri Frozr 3 cooler, Torx Fan 5.0, and their core pipe heatpipes with descriptions of each of those but details are scarce. There is also another picture of the 4080 Gaming X Trio on the right side.

Inside the box is a cardboard tray. This has a foam layer on top and under it you have the 4080 Gaming X Trio wrapped up in a static protective bag sitting in its cutout section in a thick foam tray. There is also another cutout for the accessories and under the card, there was the documentation.

For documentation the 4080 Gaming X Trio just came with a universal MSI quick users guide which also has QR codes on the front for Nvidia or AMD installations. The 4080 Gaming X Trio did come with two accessories and both are important. Because of the size of the card, MSI did include a stamped sheet metal support bracket. This is finished in black and has a few glossy black stripes that match the styling on the card. It also has Gaming Trio printed on it as well. There is a rubber bumper on the top to support the card and it attaches to your PCI brackets for strength. Then the 4080 Gaming X Trio also came with the same three 8-pin to single 12HPWR connection that the RTX 4080 Founders Edition came with. This cable has the Nvidia logo on it and is the same cable that the high-end RTX 3000 Series cards came with as well. I know the four-to-one cables that came with the RTX 4090s have been having issues but as of right now there hasn’t been a specific cause for those issues worked out and this is a different cable than used with the 4090s.