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The Palit RTX 5080 GamingPro OC ships in a blue box with a large image of the graphics card visible on the front. On the back, Palit mentions a few key areas of the graphics card.
Inside, a small mousepad is included, Nvidia and Palit branded, along with a whole bunch of stickers and the triple 8-pin power adapter.
The graphics card itself is probably the least exciting to look at of the three today. It's just plain black all over, but with some glossy sections which add some reflectivity. It's not necessarily ugly, but I'd say it's definitely behind the Suprim and Gaming OC in terms of my personal preferences.
It does still offer three fans as part of the cooling solution, with each measuring 100mm in diameter.
In terms of its size, it's also the smallest card on test today, measuring 331.9 x 127.1 x 60 mm. It also weighed in at 1582g on my scales.
The front side of the card is home to the GeForce RTX and GamingPro logos, the latter of which is illuminated by RGB LEDs.
As for the backplate, it's another full-length metal design, but almost half of it has been cut out to act as the ‘flow through' area, though it's not completely open as Palit has opted for a vented approach.
Here we can see the RGB lighting in action, and you can also connect an ARGB cable to the card and control the lighting via your motherboard if that is your preference.
As expected, power is delivered by a single 12V-2X6 connector. Display outputs consist of three DP 2.1 and one HDMI 2.1 ports.
Moving onto the PCB, the design here is very similar to the Gaming OC, given we find a 14-phase GPU VRM and a 3-phase memory VRM, all using 50A MPS MP87993 MOSFETs. Once more, a Monolithic MP29816 controller is used for the GPU, with a Monolithic MP2988 controller for the memory.
Palit is also using a vapour chamber to contact the GPU and memory, though the MOSFETs are cooled by separate baseplates. The fin stack utilises a total of eight heatpipes.
