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

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running A Plague Tale: Requiem for 30 minutes. We use GPU-Z to record the GPU core frequency during gameplay. We calculate the average core frequency during the 30 minute run to present here.

As it turns out, the reason for the gaming performance just lagging behind the competition slightly, is due to the relatively conservative factory overclock. In our real world testing, that saw the Noctua Edition running below 2800MHz most of the time, whereas the other 5080s tested were comfortably faster.

It's also worth pointing out that we always use the default BIOS mode for our game testing, which is the Quiet mode for the ASUS Noctua Edition, but even the Performance mode isn't able to catch up to the likes of the Suprim SOC or Palit's GamingPro OC.

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