GIGABYTE Gaming GeForce RTX 5080 Graphics Card GV-N5080GAMING OC-16GD

Pros: The thermals on this card are great and has to be one of the quietest cards I have ever used. I’m running this at 4k with the monitor AORUS FO32U2P and the card doesn’t break a sweat. Max settings on everything and this card just rocks. Have been trying to get a 5090 but after getting this and installing it I won’t even bother and will just wait for the next generation in a couple years. You won’t be disappointed with a 5080 or this card in particular. Cons: The slider on the card which allows you to show either the logo lit up or to choose the mech looks is cheap. Could of been designed better mine fell off when I was moving the selector but it easily snaps back on. Other than that no problems with the performance of the card. Overall Review: Very happy with the card.

Pros: – Performance
– Silent operation
– Temperatures Cons: – Expensive
(- big if your chose a smaller case)
(- import duties to Thailand have gone through the roof) Overall Review: Previous computer built 4 years ago was a 6900xt / 5800x.
Made a new machine 9800x3d / rtx 5080 and the difference in thermals is amazing for both.
6900xt in Thailand with no aircon would easily reach thermal throttling and 95 degrees gpu / 105 hotspot.
This Gygabyte 5080 gaming oc stays at a cool 60 in normal gaming usage …
When the 6900 sounded like a vacuum cleaner, this card in silent bios mode barely adds sound to the pretty silent case with 6 140mm fans and 3 aio 120mm fans.
The card comes with a Gpu support bracket you screw to the card. You will find a plethora of people commenting about the lack of metal frame for the card, but the support for setting up the bracket is a solid chunk of metal … time will tell, and it feels solid to me.
The card works flawlessly in pcie 5.0 on a msi x870e carbon, with no crash in cyberpunk whatsoever. It was installed on a new win 11 install with the latest hot fix drivers.
Not 1 black screen issue happened.
Finally, I am really happy with the 4x frame gen. Not that I bought the card for that, but, in Cyberpunk 2077 using all max settings included RT settings (path tracing, ray reconstruction) … Frame gen 4x makes the game buttery smooth and I could not when doing basic testing see any artefacts or difference from native frame settings.
At 3440×1440 native, full cp2077 options including path tracing is simply not playable.
Using Dlss4 quality / framegen 4x, the game ran at 120fps as by magic with no obvious artefact during gameplay (am sure there are if you look hard enough).
The 12hpwr has a small led just on top which I guess lights up if the connection is faulty.
I dont think the card has a software power pins health detection as the high end asus one which would be great to have as a standard in the future really …
It took 10 days from the order to arrive on an island in Thailand, with extended clearance customs.
The parcel did a whooping :
– Utah to Chicago
– Chicago to London
– London to Berlin
– Berlin to Calcutta
– Calcutta to Bangkok
Card was sitting comfortably in the Newegg parcel surrounded by air pockets.
Parcel was opened by customs.
Parcel was found idly sitting on top of a scooter in the open while I was waiting for it for more than half the day 🙂
Fingers crossed these early days impressions stay that way !

Pros: Ray tracing performance, DLSS4, GPU temperature, warranty Cons: PRICE, VRAM Overall Review: Honestly seeing the reviews of the RTX 5080 didn’t exactly wow me just like many others especially compared to the card I previously used the XFX 7900 XTX. I started using Raytracing consistently in January and since the 5080 is a more refined Raytracing card I took a chance on it. With what has now been nearly two weeks of using the card, I have completely been sold on DLSS 4 MULTI FRAMEGEN especially when it comes to Pathtracing games. As more DLSS4 games release my decision will be solidified. I have ran into one issue with Indiana Jones being the first game to need more than 16gb of VRAM to play max settings including pathtracing. The GPU typically doesn’t exceed 61c when gaming and while the price wasn’t great the card does have a 4 year warranty from Gigabyte.

Pros: -Its a beast
-I don’t know if I received a “golden gpu” but it over clocks amazingly well, like I’m extremely surprised.
– very little coil whine. Cons: – spent about 12 hours chasing my tail on stability issues that had me questioning my sanity and everything I knew about computers.. Overall Review: READ THIS IF YOU HAVE STABALITY ISSUES!!! This might help you!
LONNNNGGGGG story short,
~Set your PCIE X16 to 4.0 speeds in BIOS if you’re having stability issues.
Long story slightly longer,
~I spent hours trying to figure out why sometimes my new pc would fail to post, sometimes would post but windows would fail to boot, sometimes got past login and ran windows for a few minutes then black screen. MOBO debug display was showing all kinds of random error codes that sent me off in many different directions. I immediately tried installing just about every driver version I could find, updating my BIOS, etc etc no fixes; was starting to think i had a problem with the mobo… or maybe a dud gpu… until I saw a random reddit post recommending switching the PCIE X16 to 4.0 speeds from 5.0. Did this, and it worked immediately, everything stable, benchmarked good, no problems.
No idea if the issue is with my mobo, the gpu, or (most likely) the NVIDIA drivers, but this fixed it. Also, performance difference between pcie 4 and 5 speeds for a 5080 is within 1% so im just going to roll with it and try switching it back after a few driver updates..
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