With the new generation of GeForce GPUs, Asus is introducing the new ROG Astral series. Positioned at the top of Asus’s lineup, it inherits high-end features from previous ROG Strix models, including a dual BIOS, system fan control, a robust design, factory overclocking, and a large, top-notch cooler. It doesn’t just come with three but a total of four fans. However, this premium package comes at a significant price.
In some tests, you’ll find that the card in quiet mode is exceptionally quiet, with fan speeds around 900 RPM. It’s possible that in such cases, the GPU wasn’t fully loaded. While you can’t directly see this from the GPU Load values on RTX 50 series cards, it becomes apparent from the power consumption.
Below is an example with three different settings. The first one is the most demanding from the previous chapters, while the other graphs represent less demanding settings where the CPU started to bottleneck the card. As you can see, GPU Load stays high, which might make it seem like the card is under strain, but from the power consumption graph, it’s clear that’s not the case. With lower power consumption, temperatures drop as well, and so do the fan speeds. Even in quiet mode, you can reach a state when the card becomes quieter, but again, the chip is clearly not fully loaded in such situations, even if it might appear so based on monitoring.
