MSI has revived the Cyclone family of graphics cards. The new GeForce RTX 4060 Cyclone 8G OC (h/t Harukaze5719) is the first MSI Cyclone we have seen launch in a dozen years. Of course, it shares the signature oversized cooling fan design veterans will be familiar with, but MSI has added a waspish spin with its move from monochrome to yellow and black livery.
Let's have a wander down memory lane. The last review of an MSI Cyclone design on Tom’s Hardware was published back in March 2011. On that date we reviewed a pair of new Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics cards, an MSI Cyclone II and Zotac Amp! Edition, and wrote about how the GTX 550 Ti filled a gap in Nvidia’s range at $150, and directly addressed the threat of AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 cards. The newly launched GeForce GTX 550 Ti featured key specs like 192 shaders, a GPU core clock of 900 MHz, and 1 GB of GDDR5 on a 192-bit bus.
