A premium collaboration between ASUS and Noctua, the RTX 5080 Noctua Edition GPU delivers flagship 4K performance wrapped in exceptional cooling, near-silent operation, and unmistakable Noctua styling.
Product on Review: RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
Manufacturer ASUS
Street Price: USD 1600 | GBP 1500 | AUD 2700
The latest entrant in ASUS’s premium graphics card lineup is the ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition, a striking blend of high-end GPU performance and class-leading acoustics. Built around NVIDIA’s powerful 16 GB GeForce RTX 5080 GPU—with a custom PCB and robust vapor chamber heatsink—the card pushes traditional air cooling to new heights with three of Noctua’s flagship NF-A12x25 G2 120 mm fans. This triple-fan setup isn’t just about size: the fans are deliberately speed-offset to minimise harmonic interactions and deliver a truly quiet performance profile that aims to outclass even ASUS’s own TUF and ROG Astral variants.
What makes this card particularly noteworthy is the continuing partnership between ASUS and Noctua. The two companies have previously teamed up on special edition cards such as the RTX 3080 and RTX 4080 Noctua Editions, combining ASUS’s GPU engineering with Noctua’s renowned expertise in low-noise cooling. In the RTX 5080 model, that collaboration culminates in a custom-designed heatsink with an extensive vapour chamber and eleven heatpipes, tailored to extract heat efficiently while keeping ambient noise to a minimum—an appealing proposition for enthusiasts who prize acoustic comfort as much as raw frame rates.
Beyond its cooling pedigree, the NVIDIA Blackwell-based GPU at the heart of the card features a healthy complement of CUDA cores and modern features like PCIe 5.0 support, ample memory bandwidth, and the latest ray-tracing and AI acceleration capabilities. The sheer physical scale of the design—measuring well into four slots of chassis space—signals ASUS and Noctua’s commitment to thermally efficient performance, albeit with the trade-off of a larger footprint. We’re looking forward to seeing how this balance of performance, thermals, and whisper-quiet operation translates into real-world numbers when we put it through its paces in our upcoming testing.
Noctua on the RTX 5080 Noctua Edition:
True to the legacy of the ASUS x Noctua series graphics cards, the ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition leverages the power of Noctua’s latest flagship fans and a fully custom-engineered heatsink to achieve state-of-the-art quiet cooling efficiency.
Technical Specifications
Model
RTX5080-O16G-NOCTUA
Graphic Engine
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5080
AI Performance
1801 TOPs
Bus Standard
PCI Express 5.0
OpenGL
OpenGL®4.6
Video Memory
16GB GDDR7
Engine Clock
OC mode: 2730 MHz
Default mode: 2700 MHz (Boost Clock)
CUDA Core
10752
Memory Speed
30 Gbps
Memory Interface
256-bit
Resolution
Digital Max Resolution 7680 x 4320
Interface
Yes x 2 (Native HDMI 2.1b)
Yes x 3 (Native DisplayPort 2.1b)
HDCP Support Yes (2.3)
Maximum Display Support
4
NVlink/ Crossfire Support
No
Accessories
1 x Speedsetup Manual
1 x Graphics Card Holder
1 x Thank You Card
1 x Adapter Cable (1 to 3)
1 x ASUS Velcro Hook & Loop
Software
ASUS GPU Tweak III & MuseTree & GeForce Game Ready Driver & Studio Driver: please download all software from the support site.
Dimensions
385 × 151 × 80 mm
15.16 × 5.94 × 3.15 inch
Recommended PSU
850W
Power Connectors
1 x 16-pin
Slot
4 Slot
Closer Look Video
For our coverage of the ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition, we’ve produced a video review which provides a detailed tour of the graphics card and highlights key features.
Click here to view the RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
Test Setup & Methodology
HOW WE TEST GRAPHICS CARDS
Testing a graphics card is an extremely lengthy process. We sometimes see reviews where a graphics card has been tested using out of date equipment, out of date games and even out of date drivers. While the latter can be excused due to the sheer amount of driver updates making a thorough review impossible we will however notify the reader when we have used a different driver to the normal for example a pre-release driver. For the most part however we will always use the same hardware and latest drivers so this does certainly need to be taken into consideration when viewing our testing results. Each game and benchmark is tested times with the lowest and highest scores omitted out of the 5 results and the average then taken from the three remaining to give us our final result for each resolution and setting used.HARDWARE
In Q1 2025 we decided to upgrade our test system to the very latest AMD X870E platform with the renowned AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D – currently regarded as one of the best gaming CPUs to date. AMD’s platform is one of the most popular choices for gamers and by using such a configuration, we can hopefully showcase to our readership what they can expect.This new platform provides us with the very latest technology and standards to be able to accurately report back on performance of modern graphics cards.
Graphics Cards on test:
MSI VENTUS 2X OC RTX 4060 TI
ASUS PRIME RTX 4070 SUPER
INNO3D RTX 4080 SUPER X3
PNY RTX 4090 XLR8 VERTO EPIC-X
ASUS PRIME RTX 5060 OC
GIGABYTE RTX 5070 TI EAGLE OC ICE
GIGABYTE RTX 5080 GAMING OC
GIGABYTE RTX 5080 AERO OC SFF
AORUS RTX 5090 MASTER
GIGABYTE RX 7700 XT GAMING OC
POWERCOLOR RED DEVIL RX 7800 XT
POWERCOLOR HELLHOUND RX 7900 GRE
XFX MERC 310 RX 7900 XTX
POWERCOLOR REAPER RX 9060 XT
POWERCOLOR HELLHOUND RX 9070
AORUS RX 9070 XT Elite
Special thanks go to MSI and Corsair for providing the hardware configuration for our graphics card reviews:
Motherboard: MSI X870E CARBON WIFI
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
RAM – 32GB HyperX FURY Renegade 7600MHz
Power Supply – Corsair RM1000X
Hard Drive – Samsung 990 PRO
Cooler – Corsair iCue Link Titan 360 RX LCD
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
RAM – 32GB HyperX FURY Renegade 7600MHz
Power Supply – Corsair RM1000X
Hard Drive – Samsung 990 PRO
Cooler – Corsair iCue Link Titan 360 RX LCD
BENCHMARKS
If you are a regular reader of our reviews you will know we like to test the latest hardware with the latest games and benchmarks on the market. Here are the games we’ve chosen:S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Black Myth: Wukong
Silent Hill 2 Remake
TEKKEN 8
Horizon Forbidden West
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Black Myth: Wukong
Silent Hill 2 Remake
TEKKEN 8
Horizon Forbidden West
To capture framerates we use CapFrameX.
Other benchmark tools have been included to give a broad overview of performance and these include:
PugetBench for Davinci Resolve
ProCyon AI Image Generation
ProCyon Video Editing
3DMark SpeedWay
3DMark Nomad
Let’s see how today’s graphics card performed…
Power, Temperatures, Acoustics
To test for power consumption, we take a measurement from the plug socket. It is important to note that the figures below represent total system power use and not just the GPU. The CPU was always in a fixed state so did not affect the additional power load when the GPU was placed under 100% load using AIDA64 stability test (GPU Only) which was ran for 20 minutes at which point a load reading was taken. Idle readings were taken 5 minutes after system boot to ensure any background services and applications had loaded.
TEMPERATURE
To test temperatures we measured idle temperatures after booting windows, letting all applications finish loading and ran a few benchmarks. Once the benchmarks were complete we left the card to reach a cooling plateau where we then took the idle temperatures. For the load tests we use GPU-Z and have this running throughout all of our benchmarks, and then report back on the maximum temperatures at the end of this exhaustive session.ACOUSTICS
For the purpose of testing audio levels we have the NDI KC-3300 sound level meter. During the temperature recording above, while in Black Myth Wukong benchmark we monitored the audio and the results are found below. All graphics cards are tested in their out of the box state (auto).PugetBench for Davinci Resolve
PugetBench for DaVinci Resolve runs on top of your installed copy of Resolve, providing benchmark data directly from the application. Our benchmarks are designed in partnership with hardware and software industry leaders, as well as end users and influencers who use DaVinci Resolve daily, to ensure that they are representative of real-world workflows.
Procyon AI Image Generation
The Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark provides a consistent, accurate, and understandable workload for measuring the inference performance of on-device AI accelerators. This benchmark was developed in partnership with multiple key industry members to ensure it produces fair and comparable results across all supported hardware.
Procyon Video Editing Benchmark
Procyon benchmarks use real applications to test performance whenever possible. The Procyon Video Editing Benchmark uses Adobe Premiere Pro in a typical video editing workflow.3DMark Speed Way
3DMark Speed Way is a DirectX 12 Ultimate benchmark for gaming PCs running Windows 10 and 11. Speed Way’s engine is assembled to demonstrate the new features DirectX 12 Ultimate brings to raytraced gaming. Speed Way uses DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and real-time raytraced reflections, coupled with new DirectX 12 Ultimate performance optimizations like Mesh Shaders.
3DMark Steel Nomad
Steel Nomad uses graphics technologies just like your favorite new game titles to give you a good idea of how your system will run the latest heavy PC games without ray tracing. Succeeding the massively popular 3DMark Time Spy benchmark, Steel Nomad runs at a 4k resolution and adds new graphics technologies like volumetric skies and procedural grass.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a 2024 first-person shooter, survival horror video game developed and published by GSC Game World. It is the fourth main game released in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series, as well as the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 15 years since the release of Call of Pripyat in 2009.
Silent Hill 2 Remake
Silent Hill 2 is a 2024 survival horror game developed by Bloober Team and published by Konami Digital Entertainment. It is a remake of the 2001 video game Silent Hill 2, originally developed by Team Silent, a group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a 2024 action-adventure game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is based on the Indiana Jones franchise and features an original narrative that draws from the film series.
Black Myth: Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong is a 2024 action role-playing game developed and published by Game Science. The game is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West.
TEKKEN 8
Tekken 8 is a 2024 fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Arika and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the eighth main installment in the Tekken series and the first one to debut on home systems instead of arcades.
Conclusion
In many ways, the ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition feels like the natural evolution of a partnership that already proved its worth with the RTX 3080 and RTX 4080 Noctua Editions. ASUS brings its experience in GPU engineering, power delivery, and structural design, while Noctua contributes its unmatched expertise in low-noise, high-efficiency air cooling. The result is a graphics card that doesn’t just chase peak performance numbers, but delivers a refined, premium experience aimed squarely at enthusiasts who value acoustics and thermals just as highly as raw frame rates.
Aesthetically, this card will be polarising—in the best possible way. Noctua’s unmistakable beige and brown colour scheme is front and centre, making the RTX 5080 Noctua Edition an ideal choice for fans of the brand’s understated, functional styling. For builders planning an all-Noctua themed system, complete with matching CPU coolers and case fans, this card fits seamlessly into that vision. The absence of RGB lighting reinforces the utilitarian design philosophy and ensures the card appeals to users who prefer a clean, distraction-free build.
Cooling is where this card truly sets itself apart. The oversized heatsink, vapour chamber, and triple Noctua fan configuration deliver exceptional thermal performance across the board, keeping GPU, VRM, and VRAM temperatures impressively low even under sustained loads. More importantly, it fully lives up to the “Ultra-Quiet” promise, emerging as the quietest graphics card we’ve tested to date. Even when pushed hard, fan noise remains barely perceptible, making it a standout option for silent PC enthusiasts or those working in noise-sensitive environments.
Performance is equally convincing. The RTX 5080 Noctua Edition handles 4K gaming with ease, even with settings maxed out, delivering smooth, consistent frame rates without thermal or acoustic compromise. Build quality is exceptional, from the reinforced shroud to the solid backplate, and the I/O panel is generously equipped with three DisplayPort 2.1 outputs and two HDMI 2.1 ports, offering excellent flexibility for multi-monitor and high-refresh-rate setups.
That said, there are trade-offs. This is one of the largest and heaviest graphics cards we’ve tested, demanding careful case compatibility checks and solid support once installed. It also requires an 850W power supply, which may push some users toward an upgrade.
For those who can accommodate its size and power needs, however, the ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition stands as a unique, expertly executed GPU that prioritises silence, cooling excellence, and cohesive design—and it sets a new benchmark for what a premium air-cooled graphics card can be.
Pros
+ Supreme cooling solution
+ Lives up to ‘Ultra-Quiet’ characteristic
+ Excellent build quality
+ Lots of ports on the I/O panel
+ Can handle 4K with ease
+ No RGB lighting
Cons
– Requires 850W power supply
– Large footprint
– Heavy
+ Supreme cooling solution
+ Lives up to ‘Ultra-Quiet’ characteristic
+ Excellent build quality
+ Lots of ports on the I/O panel
+ Can handle 4K with ease
+ No RGB lighting
Cons
– Requires 850W power supply
– Large footprint
– Heavy
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