Pretty, cool. Pretty cool.
Great-looking GPUs can be a bit of a waste in the wrong setup. With the glass side of your case smushed against a wall, there’s no point getting something pretty if you can’t look inside. However, in Noctua’s case, looks aren’t the only reason to go for its new RTX card (though they certainly help).
We got a look at the three-fan four-slot RTX 5080 chonker earlier this year, and Noctua has finally unveiled almost all the important specs. It does, however, omit the price.
According to Noctua, this is the first GPU to have three 120 mm fans, though we’d argue this isn’t technically true, as the Cooler Master prebuilt RTX rigs have custom GPUs with three 120 mm fans. Though this is definitely the first card to use Noctua’s NF A12X25 G2. We think the G2 is the best fan out there on the market right now, thanks in part to great airflow throughout the rpm range.
The new Noctua RTX 5080 has a «thoroughly optimised, custom-engineered heatsink that combines an extensive vapour chamber with seven 8 mm and four 6 mm heatpipes.»
General manager and corporate vice president of Asus, Kent Chen, says, «We’ve created a solution that delivers exceptional performance with impressively low noise levels.
