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.
The fans aren’t too bad when it comes to noise. At maximum speeds, they are quieter than those on the Asus RTX 5080, and they also produce a more consistent sound. The coils were also a bit quieter; at times, their noise was masked by the fans, though it can’t be said that they were completely silent at all times.
I measured the operational characteristics during the Cyberpunk benchmark with RT Medium settings at a resolution of 3840 × 2160. With this setup, the graphics chip is almost fully loaded even with the performance BIOS. I did eight consecutive benchmark runs.
The graph always shows the last run, from which the average value for a warmed-up card is calculated.
The frame rate hovers at around 41.0 frames per second.
The card’s clock speed holds steady at around 2816 MHz.
With this setup, the card’s power consumption is around 344 W according to the monitoring, which is below the power limit of 360 W in the Performance mode. This suggests that the chip is not fully maxed out.
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).
The temperatures are absolutely deluxe in this mode, but this is at the expense of higher fan noise. Even so, the card is much quieter than the Founders Edition, not to mention the RTX 5080 from Asus in the previous test.
Fan speeds reach 1680 rpm in the performance mode, at which the measured noise level of the card is around 38.8 dBA.
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