At first glance, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC doesn’t impress with a flashy design or a vibrant light show. It’s not among the cheapest models, but it’s far from the most expensive. In a standard position, the lighting is rather subtle, the backlit fans stand out more in a vertical setup. The real advantage, though, is the oversized cooler and well-tuned fan control, allowing this card to surpass even more expensive competitors in terms of operating characteristics.
I measured the operating characteristics in the F1 24 benchmark at a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels with the Ultra setting. With this setting, the GPU is almost fully loaded. This is a benchmark with five laps on the Singapore map in wet conditions
The frame rate hovers at around 71 fps.
The card’s clock speed holds steady at around 2795 MHz.
With this setting, the card’s power consumption is around 348 W according to the monitoring, which is still slightly below the power limit of360 W.
The total power consumption of the PC, measured with the UT71E multimeter, is shown in dark color. The green line represents the power consumption of the card based on monitoring, and the blue line shows the processor’s power consumption according to monitoring (measured through HWiNFO).
Temperatures again without problems, both for GPU and memory.
The fans here are also at a high 1800 rpm, so you can already hear when the card is busy.
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