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ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 TUF OC

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The ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 TUF OC is a premium custom-design version of NVIDIA's second-strongest card. It comes with a big quad-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that runs extremely quiet when the quiet BIOS is activated. You also get a second HDMI output and a factory overclock.

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Great card in every metric except the one that matters... Price! I guess ill try to get one in 3 years or so.
 
The 5070 Ti results are absent from the individual game benchmarks?
 
$375 extra for 83MHz.
Thanks, Asus, for meeting my incredibly low expectations.

As always, this will be a great card to buy on the used market a year or two from now, just don't get scalped by Asus by buying a new one.
 
I just flashed the Astral 450w BIOS to this card. Gave me an uplift of 5-10 fps at stock settings. With OC probably another 5-7 frames more. Could actually equal a 4090 now.
 
$375 extra for 83MHz.
Thanks, Asus, for meeting my incredibly low expectations.

As always, this will be a great card to buy on the used market a year or two from now, just don't get scalped by Asus by buying a new one.
I bought my 5080 TUF OC at the same price as the non OC model. But both were about $150 USD more than msrp. The pricing of the 50 series is unfortunate, but they are still a great upgrade for people like me replacing 30 series cards.
 
In what world is that 378 mm² xx60 class chip worth $1500? ‍
 
The pricing of the 50 series is unfortunate, but they are still a great upgrade for people like me replacing 30 series cards.

Who could have replaced their 30 series a year ago with better price / performance upgrade as now? No use crying over spilled milk, it is what it is, stiff upper lip, harder daddy?
 
I have this card and MSI Vanguard 5070ti. This 5080 gets me about 10-18 fps more on average.
Heh I actually have the Vanguard ordered.

Added now

Thanks.
Out of curiosity: the 'vanilla' 5080 results in this review correspond to which brand of the card? The FE card review has different fps results. Has then 5080 FE been re-tested since the original review?
Same question regarding the 5070 Ti data, since that card doesn't have FE variant.
 
Thanks for the review. I agree that 30%+ price increase over msrp for a slightly better cooler is definitively not worth it.

However i dont understand how you can possibly say "you're just missing out on multi-frame-generation". This thing almost double FPS compared to regular FG. It's a big deal. Sure it's not as perfect as having the same double raster performance, but it still works well enough that it's useable. It's like if you say "you're just missing out the motor" when comparing a car and a horse tracted diligence :p
 
I bought my 5080 TUF OC at the same price as the non OC model. But both were about $150 USD more than msrp. The pricing of the 50 series is unfortunate, but they are still a great upgrade for people like me replacing 30 series cards.
My complaint against ASUS isn't the $1000 MSRP Nvidia set, nor the market scalping that's in effect through high demand/low supply.

No, my complaint against ASUS is a $375 higher MSRP for an 83MHz overclock. It's clear that silicon lottery is the main factor in overclocking headroom, since even the most basic $1000 MSRP cards are achieving the same ballpark of overclock.

Is it a nice card? with an overkill cooler that will run very quietly? Yes. But so are most of the 5080 cards, without the ASUS tax.
 
when pyTorch coming to Blackwell or will it ever? 4th month since release...
I don't want to buy product I can't use
 
Thanks for the review. I agree that 30%+ price increase over msrp for a slightly better cooler is definitively not worth it.

However i dont understand how you can possibly say "you're just missing out on multi-frame-generation". This thing almost double FPS compared to regular FG. It's a big deal. Sure it's not as perfect as having the same double raster performance, but it still works well enough that it's useable. It's like if you say "you're just missing out the motor" when comparing a car and a horse tracted diligence :p
FYI MFG is garbage. All it does is add frames you don't need, because the latency it adds is incompatible with fast/twitch competitive gaming and therefore only of value for sightseeing single-player content.

In a single player game, normal 2x framegen at ~120fps feels like a 50fps experience, which is borderline. 120fps is already plenty smooth enough for single player stuff, but the latency hurts it. Getting 240fps with MFG but the game feeling like a 45fps experience is even worse. We don't need more frames, we need less lag.

I was trying Indiana jones with full path tracing on my 5070Ti and leaning heavily into framegen, but suffice to say I turned it off again. Honestly, in single player stuff, being forced to use reflex which disables vsync and VRR is actually a really big loss. Jerky, out-of-sync animations, uneven camera panning, screen-tearing - the general loss of buttery smoothness is a huge immersion-breaker for me. I'd genuinely say that a constant, capped 60Hz vsync is a nicer experience than 120fps framegen, 180fps 3x MFG, or 240fps 4x MFG. The locked 60Hz experience will be smoother, and lower latency, so it'll feel better too. Don't even get me started on framegen artifacts....
 
What happen to the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 test can you add to your test again. Really like to see it added
 
Great card in every metric except the one that matters... Price! I guess ill try to get one in 3 years or so.
And size.
 
Idle 14w, how is that a con? Down from 26w observed on the previously reviewed 5070 ti.
 
Nvidia: You can cool this thing while occupying only 2 slots.
Asus: Yeah, we'll take 4.
 
when pyTorch coming to Blackwell or will it ever? 4th month since release...
I don't want to buy product I can't use
Why do people ask these things on random forums instead of the project's Github? It's like you're mentally defective.
 
FYI MFG is garbage. All it does is add frames you don't need, because the latency it adds is incompatible with fast/twitch competitive gaming and therefore only of value for sightseeing single-player content.

In a single player game, normal 2x framegen at ~120fps feels like a 50fps experience, which is borderline. 120fps is already plenty smooth enough for single player stuff, but the latency hurts it. Getting 240fps with MFG but the game feeling like a 45fps experience is even worse. We don't need more frames, we need less lag.

I was trying Indiana jones with full path tracing on my 5070Ti and leaning heavily into framegen, but suffice to say I turned it off again. Honestly, in single player stuff, being forced to use reflex which disables vsync and VRR is actually a really big loss. Jerky, out-of-sync animations, uneven camera panning, screen-tearing - the general loss of buttery smoothness is a huge immersion-breaker for me. I'd genuinely say that a constant, capped 60Hz vsync is a nicer experience than 120fps framegen, 180fps 3x MFG, or 240fps 4x MFG. The locked 60Hz experience will be smoother, and lower latency, so it'll feel better too. Don't even get me started on framegen artifacts....

Does your celeron 300 A even support FG? :D

Yes FG is not designed for competitive games. The most played competitive games dont require high end GPUs to be played at high framerate anyway. FG is designed for AAA like indiana jones and cyberpunk.

I dont know where you saw that using reflex disables VRR, it's 2 independant things. Perhaps in indiana jones? (never played it yet). In cyberpunk you can use VRR, FG and reflex with no issues. When i played it with my 4070 maxed out @1080p the gameplay was butter smooth, there was no noticeable input lag, got around 100 fps in average. And no noticeable differences in artifacts when FG was off or on.

And when you watch reviews of the 4060 ti 16GB on youtube playing cyberpunk the same way, you also see that the user doesn't have issues either with input lag. Which means even when the base framerate is not that high, if it's not ground low it stays playable.

I'm getting a 5060 ti 16GB in 2 days because i'm pretty sure it will work well with MFG and even too powerful for 1080p. I wanted a 8GB at first because of neural texture compression, but since nvidia cut the vram upgrade price by half, $50 for double vram seems fair.
 
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