Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 VS MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC

At their core, both the Asus Prime RTX 5070 and the MSI Shadow 3X OC are built on identical silicon foundations: the same 6144 shading units, 192 TMUs, 80 ROPs, and a matching base clock of 2325 MHz. This means neither card has a structural advantage in raw compute architecture — any performance gap between them comes down entirely to how aggressively each board partner has tuned the boost behavior.

That is precisely where the MSI Shadow 3X OC earns its ″OC″ designation. Its GPU turbo reaches 2542 MHz versus the Asus Prime's 2512 MHz — a modest but real 30 MHz advantage. This translates downstream into every derived throughput metric: the MSI edges ahead with 31.24 TFLOPS of floating-point performance versus 30.87 TFLOPS, and a texture rate of 488.1 GTexels/s versus 482.3 GTexels/s. In practical terms, these differences sit around 1–1.2%, which falls well within the noise floor of most real-world gaming benchmarks but could matter in sustained compute or rendering workloads where every sustained clock cycle counts.

In summary, the MSI Shadow 3X OC holds a narrow but consistent performance edge in this group, driven purely by its higher factory boost clock. The Asus Prime is not meaningfully slower — the gap is too small to be perceptible in everyday gaming — but if raw peak throughput is the deciding factor, the MSI is the objectively faster card of the two based on the provided specifications.

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 and MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC share identical memory specifications. Both have an effective memory speed of 28000 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 672 GB/s. They are equipped with 12GB of VRAM, utilize GDDR7 memory, and feature a 192-bit memory bus width.

Additionally, both cards support ECC (Error Correcting Code) memory, ensuring higher reliability in data handling.

With all memory specifications matching, there is no difference between the two products in this category.

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 and MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC are identical in terms of their supported features. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL version 4.6, and OpenCL version 3. They also both support multi-display technology, ray tracing, and 3D, as well as DLSS.

Neither product includes XeSS (XMX) support, and both are equipped with Intel Resizable BAR, rather than AMD SAM. They also share the same lack of LHR and RGB lighting.

Both products support up to four displays, offering the same level of display connectivity.

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 and MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC have identical port configurations. Both cards feature one HDMI output with HDMI 2.1b support, three DisplayPort outputs, and no USB-C, DVI, or mini DisplayPort outputs.

With the same setup, there are no differences between the two products in terms of connectivity ports.

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 and MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC share identical specifications for GPU architecture, thermal design power (TDP), PCIe version, semiconductor size, and the number of transistors. Both use the Blackwell architecture, have a TDP of 250W, support PCI Express 5.0, are built on a 5 nm process, and contain 31,100 million transistors.

Both products lack air-water cooling and have similar dimensions, with the Asus card measuring 306 mm in width and 126 mm in height, while the MSI card is slightly smaller at 303 mm wide and 121 mm high.

Overall, the two cards are almost identical in terms of general specifications, with the only difference being a slight variation in physical dimensions.