At the foundation, both cards share an identical hardware configuration: 8960 shading units, 280 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and a base GPU clock of 2295 MHz, making them functionally equivalent in terms of raw silicon. The real divergence comes in the boost clock: the Asus Prime OC Edition reaches a GPU turbo of 2497 MHz, while the MSI Gaming Trio Plus tops out at 2452 MHz — a 45 MHz gap that directly cascades into every derived throughput metric.
That clock advantage translates into measurable, if modest, performance deltas across the board. The Asus delivers 44.75 TFLOPS of floating-point performance versus 43.94 TFLOPS on the MSI — roughly a 1.8% lead. Similarly, texture throughput stands at 699.2 GTexels/s vs 686.6 GTexels/s, and pixel fill rate at 239.7 GPixel/s vs 235.4 GPixel/s. In practice, these differences are unlikely to be perceptible in typical gaming workloads, but they could offer a marginal edge in heavily compute-bound scenarios or GPU-accelerated tasks where sustained throughput matters over many frames.
The Asus Prime OC Edition holds a clear but narrow performance edge in this group, driven entirely by its higher factory overclock. Both cards are otherwise identical in architecture and memory configuration, so the MSI Gaming Trio Plus is not disadvantaged by design — only by tuning. If raw peak performance is the priority and all else is equal, the Asus is the stronger choice here; the gap is real, even if it is slim.
