Asus GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Noctua OC

Not quite an ordinary modification of the elite NVIDIA RTX 4080 video card, made jointly by Asus and the Austrian brand Noctua, known for its cooling systems. And it's notably different from most other versions of the RTX 4080. It uses a short PCB from TUF Gaming series GPUs and uses two Noctua NF-A12x25 active coolers for cooling. On the base is a massive heatsink with an evaporation chamber and 8 heat pipes that provide efficient cooling, allowing the graphics card to work stably and without overheating under high loads.

All this goodness rises by 146 mm, occupying almost 5 motherboard slots and even under peak load it works very quietly. In normal mode, its noise does not exceed 28 dBA, which makes it almost silent during operation. When Quiet mode is enabled, the fans run at 866 rpm, generating just 23.6 dBA of noise. The case and casing are painted in traditional Noctua wood colors, there is no backlight.

The Asus GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X Noctua OC is positioned as an elite tool for gamers and creatives who are looking for an extremely powerful yet very quiet and modern graphics card. The role of the brain of the video accelerator is played by the new AD103 with 9728 CUDA cores and a 16 GB GDDR6X memory buffer with a bandwidth of 720 GB / s. The frequency of the GPU is 2625 MHz, the memory is 22400 MHz.

Depending on the selected resolution, the gaming performance of the Asus GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X Noctua OC outperforms its predecessor RTX 3080 by 25-30%. According to measurements, the card gives out an average of 50-60 FPS in Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077, A Plague Tale: Requiem and other beautiful games of recent years. All this in 4K resolution and high graphics settings.

At 2K resolution, the card feels like a fish in water, at Full HD its performance is excessive. Unlike the RTX 3080, this GPU is equipped with third generation ray tracing cores and fourth generation tensor cores, and DLSS 3.0 supersampling technology has been taught to work with new data types. It does not blur the picture as much as DLSS 2.0, while the efficiency of rendering algorithms has noticeably increased, which is especially useful when there is a lack of power in 4K games. In addition, the user also has access to a complete set of hardware and software innovations, NVIDIA Broadcast, Encoder, Reflex and RTX IO, as well as a fairly powerful package of tools for working with three-dimensional graphics NVIDIA Studio. And an advanced video processing unit allows you to play back or encode 4K/8K video streams in high quality on the fly.