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This end of the market is not overflowing with performance, but MSI has done an excellent job with what they were given. Honestly, it may not be able to take on $200 video cards, but given what MSI had to work with they made very tasty ‘lemonade’ indeed. Color us moderately impressed.
Score Card and Summary
Packaging & Accessories:9 out of 10
MSI’s included accessories are every bit as good as what comes with more expesnive MSI Gaming cards and so too is the shipping container. Given the price of this card that is indeed impressive when you think about it.
Functionality & Aesthetics: 19 out of 20
As expected the aesthetics are typical MSI Gaming series, that is to say a bit on the aggressive side for our personal tastes, but still good. On the functionality side of the equation there is no argument that this TWIN FROZR version is overbuilt and more than capable of handling an overclocked ‘Trinidad’ core.
Build Quality & Warranty: 18 out of 20
MSI builds very good cards and the R7 370 is no exception. In fact MSI really has shown what can be done on a tight a budget.
Performance: 20 out of 30
Thanks to a very decent factory overclock this card is a lot better than its older core would lead you to believe. For its price there is not much to argue about on the performance side of coin. Of course if you can afford $200 or more you will get better performance from an MSI Gaming 380 or MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming series.
Value: 17 out of 20
When it comes to MSI and R7 370’s ten dollars gets you a lot of improvements. Better cooling, better noise levels, and even better performance. That is indeed a lot to like. On the other hand AMD has significantly handicapped MSI by simply using a retreaded 265 video card. But given these limitations MSI has done much better than we thought they could!
Final Score: 83 out of 100
On the one hand this card is easily one of the better R7 370’s available today; on the other it still is a R7 370. This means even when heavily overclocked it still is not able to keep up with a NVIDIA GTX 960 on either the performance, or price to performance equations. By the same token it still is better than any NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, and its combination of silent operation and decent performance does make this a pretty darn good card for its class.
