Reviews & awards

The Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is a testament to obsession. It’s what happens when two companies thoroughly quash one engineering problem and let other constraints fall where they will.

Industrial design is a matter of taste, but the tan and brown palette of this card is incredibly polarizing. I’m fine with it, but other Tom’s Hardware staffers despise it. If you’re a Noctua diehard, though, you’re already down with the brown, and none of us are going to convince you otherwise.

If you hate fan noise, the RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is unquestionably the quietest graphics card I’ve ever tested. The noise floor of my testing environment is just 32.6 dBA, and this card only raises that by a mere 0.3 dBA under a gaming load.

This is incredible acoustic performance, and it doesn’t require giving up anything in the way of power limits or clock speeds to get there. This is a full-on RTX 5080 that delivers all of its formidable gaming performance in near silence.