ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition3. Testing Methodology4. Game Benchmarks5. Clock Speed6. GPU Temperatures7. Acoustics8. Noise-Normalised Temperatures9. Power Draw and Efficiency10. Overclocking11. Closing Thoughts12. View All Pages

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

Overclocking the RTX 5080 is very straightforward. We maximised the memory slider at +2000MHz and also maxed out the power limit at 125%, for a 450W theoretical target. Our best result came with 375MHz added to the core – 400MHz was stable in Cyberpunk but crashed in A Plague Tale: Requiem, so I dialled it back slightly.

As we've come to expect from the RTX 5080, overclocking headroom is very good indeed, and we saw real-world clock speed right around 3.2GHz, bringing performance gains of 10-12% in the three titles I tested. It didn't overclock any better, or any worse, than the likes of the Suprim SOC, but it goes to show what can be achieved with this GPU.

Power draw did also increase, but still didn't come close to the theoretical 450W maximum, instead pulling just under 390W in A Plague Tale: Requiem at 4K.

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