Palit GeForce RTX 5080 GameRock OC

[W1zzard]

The Palit GeForce RTX 5080 GameRock OC comes with impressive bling and a powerful cooling solution. Additionally, it includes a factory overclock that nets you an additional 5% in real-life FPS across our whole test suite. Cooling performance is also improved over the NVIDIA FE.

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[_roman_]

I think a notebook soc needs less than 30 watts for cpu and gpu. This needs 30 watts in idle.

I think i saw something around 6 to 8 watts in whqd at 75 fps in idle with the linux kernel and mesa and x11 and in windows 11 pro 23h2. With dp cable according to software values.

4 times higher idle consumption is really awful.

Well there are for sure metrics for the highly recommendation button with unknown graphic card price. Without a sale price i would personally hand out later any awards.

Without scnematics it's hard. I think they have a schematic error which causes high idle power draw. Bad circuit design or bad silicion or bad choosen components.

I hardly see anyone moaning about power draw. When it was about amd graphic cards there were pages over pages about similar high idle power draw.

 

[dgianstefani]

I think a notebook soc needs less than 30 watts for cpu and gpu. This needs 30 watts in idle.

I think i saw something around 6 to 8 watts in whqd at 75 fps in idle with the linux kernel and mesa and x11 and in windows 11 pro 23h2. With dp cable according to software values.

4 times higher idle consumption is really awful.

Well there are for sure metrics for the highly recommendation button with unknown graphic card price. Without a sale price i would personally hand out later any awards.

Without scnematics it's hard. I think they have a schematic error which causes high idle power draw. Bad circuit design or bad silicion or bad choosen components.

I hardly see anyone moaning about power draw. When it was about amd graphic cards there were pages over pages about similar high idle power draw.

While gaming power consumption of the GameRock is very similar to the NVIDIA Founders Edition (good), the non-gaming power draw is considerably increased over the NVIDIA card—no idea why. With 30 W in idle, the card draws 10 W more than the FE, or +50%! This can push up your power bill when your system is running for many hours each day, even when not gaming. We saw similar idle numbers on the RTX 5090, NVIDIA gave us a long presentation about their Max-Q power management and all the efficiency gizmos they have, so I suspect this is some kind of bug and that NVIDIA will fix this—something similar happened a few years ago (RTX 2080 Ti).

 

[Dristun]

This is one is the prettiest so far. At least it has some funky bling going on, everything else is bog standard gamer crap.

 

[Evrsr]

This has to be the ugliest one of them all. At least the card is well supported on the I/O plate. Should have less issues than others.

Though the PCIe power connector placement will probably make it a bad idea to have it horizontal.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Hi @W1zzard. There is an error in the first page

The GeForce RTX 5080 debuts the new GB203 silicon, which has similar die-area and transistor counts to the AD103 powering the RTX 4080, this is because NVIDIA is building Blackwell on the same NVIDIA 4N process node which is derived from TSMC 5 nm EUV. The RTX 5080 maxes out the AD103[...]

Cheers mate

 

[wNotyarD]

This is one is the prettiest so far.

This has to be the ugliest one of them all.

There are two kind of people

 

[ToonPatriot]

That last sentence mad eme giggle.
I'm using frame gen on a 2080Ti!!!

 

[rusty caterpillar]

Thanks for the tear down.

Is that a burn mark?



Lack of pads on on 370 W cards is very disappointing.



What is the point in fitting a 2100 Gr heatsink and than cover the exhausts 1/3 of it with plastic shroud, while for the rest of the exhaust we have a pretty obstructing grill.