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ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition 16 GB GPU Review: Silent Cooling at Its Best

Hassan Mujtaba

Synthetic Benchmarks

Speed Way

Developed with input from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and other leading technology companies, Speed Way is an ideal benchmark for comparing the DirectX 12 Ultimate performance of the latest graphics cards. 3DMark Speed Way’s engine is assembled to demonstrate what the latest DirectX API brings to ray-traced gaming, using DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and ray-traced reflections, coupled with new performance optimizations like Mesh Shaders.

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3DMark Speed Way Graphics
Score
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4000
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12000
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
8841
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
8830
MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC
8823
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
8817
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
8815
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
8808
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
8802
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
8801

Firestrike

Firestrike is running the DX11 API and is still a good measure of GPU scaling performance. In this test, we ran the Extreme and Ultra versions of Firestrike, which run at 1440p and 4K, and recorded the Graphics Score only since the Physics and combined scores are not pertinent to this review.

3DMark Firestrike Extreme Graphics
Score
0
9000
18000
27000
36000
45000
54000
0
9000
18000
27000
36000
45000
54000
MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC
40114
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
40111
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
40111
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
40110
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
40110
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
40106
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
40088
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
40082
3DMark Firestrike Ultra Graphics
Score
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10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
0
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10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
21194
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
21189
MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC
21184
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
21180
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
21177
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
21172
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
21172
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
21116

Time Spy

Time Spy is running the DX12 API, and we used it in the same manner as Firestrike Extreme, where we only recorded the Graphics Score, as the Physics score records the CPU performance and isn't important to the testing we are doing here.

3DMark Time Spy Graphics
Score
0
7000
14000
21000
28000
35000
42000
0
7000
14000
21000
28000
35000
42000
MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC
32895
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
32899
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
32899
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
32896
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
32895
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
32892
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
32891
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
32880
3DMark Time Spy Extreme Graphics
Score
0
4000
8000
12000
16000
20000
24000
0
4000
8000
12000
16000
20000
24000
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
17192
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
17190
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
17185
MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC
17180
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
17172
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
17139
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
17112
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
17110

Port Royal

Port Royal is another great tool in the 3DMark suite, but this one is 100% targeting Ray Tracing performance. It loads up ray-traced shadows, reflections, and global illumination to tax the performance of the graphics cards that either have hardware-based or software-based ray-tracing support.

3DMark Port Royal Score
Score
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25000
30000
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
21958
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
21948
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
21935
MSI RTX 5080 SUPRIM SOC
21933
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
21926
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
21905
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
21905
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
21901
3DMark Pure Ray Tracing Feature Test
Average
0
40
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240
0
40
80
120
160
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240
Palit RTX 5080 Gamerock OC
122.95
GALAX RTX 5080 HOF OC
122.90
MSI RTX 5080 Suprim SOC
122.87
ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition
122.74
MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC
122.73
NVIDIA RTX 5080 FE
122.41
GALAX RTX 5080 1-Click OC
122.41
MSI RTX 5080 Expert OC
122.37

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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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