The GeForce RTX 5080 series gaming graphics cards go on sale today, and simultaneously, we can now publish performance test results. The biggest improvement over the last generation is an interesting performance boost in the most demanding titles at 4K and support for new standards and technologies. The edge is especially gained in demanding ray tracing scenarios, and vice versa.
I measured the operating characteristics in the F1 24 benchmark at a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels with the Ultra setting and DLAA anti-aliasing. With this setting, the GPU is fully loaded. This is a benchmark with five laps on the Singapore map in wet conditions.
The frame rate hovers around 60 frames per second.
The card’s clock speed holds steady around 2730 MHz.
With this setting, the power consumption of the card is around 333 W according to the monitoring, which is below the power limit.
The power consumption of the whole computer measured by a UT71E multimeter was then around 456 W.
The temperatures of the GPU are significantly lower than those of the RTX 5090.
The speed of both fans is the same and stays around 1620 rpm after warming up, at which the measured noise level reaches around 42.3 dBA. And it’s a shame, the curve could have been shifted lower, this way the card is on the worse side in comparison to the noise level of common non-reference mid-range models.
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