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 temperature testing, we measure steady-state GPU temperatures under load. A reading under load comes from running A Plague Tale: Requiem for 30 minutes.

As for out of the box thermals, using the default fan curves, temperatures are kept well within check. The Performance BIOS keeps things very cool indeed, with the GPU at 58.6C and the VRAM at just 62C over our thirty minute stress test. The Quiet BIOS does run warmer, up at 66.8C and 72C for GPU and VRAM temperatures, respectively, but as we will see shortly, the fans barely spin in that mode so it's actually quite impressive – and the temperatures themselves are still nice and cool.

In the video we also show results from our thermal camera when using the default Quiet BIOS, with a hot spot in the high 60C range in the area right behind the GPU core, but other areas on the backplate are even cooler than that, so nothing to worry about.

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