AORUS GeForce RTX 5080 MASTER 16G sits at the top of Gigabyte’s air-cooled RTX 5080 lineup. The side LCD on the cooler shroud stands out, and the box even includes a fourth fan. Build quality is robust and premium, and the stock overclock is higher than you usually see on OC variants. Not everything is perfect, though—the out-of-the-box fan tuning could be better, and those extras do push up the price.
Cyberpunk 2077
If you’d like to use more demanding ray tracing features on lower-end cards, you can enable FSR or DLSS, which renders frames at a lower sample count and reconstructs them to the target resolution using upscaling—better described as super resolution. For Ultra and RT Ultra, we choose the higher-quality Balanced mode; for RT Overdrive with path tracing, we use FSR in Performance mode.
Global settings Ultra
Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Balanced and FSR3 Balanced + Frame Gen
1920 × 1080
2560 × 1440
3840 × 2160
Global settings RT Ultra
Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Balanced and FSR3 Balanced + Frame Gen
1920 × 1080
2560 × 1440
3840 × 2160
Global settings RT Overdrive
Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Performance and FSR3 Performance + Frame Gen
2560 × 1440
3840 × 2160
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