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ASUS ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 OC 16GB Graphics Card Review

BossMac SubaBy BossMac SubaFebruary 15, 20251 Comment27 Mins Read
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Asus Rog Astral Rtx 5080 Oc 16Gb Graphics Card Review

1. Introduction & Specification

  • 1. Introduction & Specification
  • 2. Closer Look
  • 3. A Word on Power
  • 4. Power Draw, Temperature, and Clock Speed Analysis
  • 5. Performance Testing – Setup & Methodology
  • 6. Counter-Strike 2
  • 7. DOTA 2
  • 8. PUBG Battlegrounds
  • 9. Rainbow Six Siege
  • 10. Baldur’s Gate 3
  • 11. Black Myth Wukong
  • 12. Cyberpunk 2077
  • 13. F1 2024
  • 14. Ghost of Tsushima: DIRECTOR’S CUT
  • 15. Hogwarts Legacy
  • 16. Horizon Forbidden West
  • 17. The Last of Us Part 1 Remastered
  • 18. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
  • 19. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
  • 20. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • 21. Resident Evil 4
  • 22. Starfield
  • 23. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II
  • 24. Ray Tracing
  • 25. DLSS4
  • 26. Conclusion
Asus Rog Astral Rtx 5080 Oc 16Gb Graphics Card Review
ASUS ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 OC 16GB Graphics Card Review
Final Thoughts
The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC is a nice card to have but its extremely limited supplies coupled with its high price of entry is big limiting factor in making a sound argument for this card.
Pros
Very good performance overall
Increased power limit
GPU-powered fan headers
2x HDMI port (one more than usual)
Good OC potential
Dual BIOS
Cons
LUXURY PRICING
Very large footprint
9
Rating

ASUS has always had a predictable release cadence when it comes to their graphics cards. While they have added more sub-series into their offering with the new TUF GAMING and PRIME graphics cards joining in, in the past 10 years it was almost always an ROG Strix to be the flag carrier of the ASUS GPU offering which in itself displaced a historic run for the ASUS DirectCU series.

This sequence is capped off by the release of an ROG card. A true ROG in name, performance, features, and price. ROG family graphics cards are as exotic as they are limited, only being released in limited quantities and affording extortionate prices. They usually come during the middle of a GPU life cycle but ASUS is changing that with the RTX 50.

Asus Rog Astral Rtx 5080 Oc 16Gb Graphics Card Review

The release of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPU saw the announcement of new cards and the crowning glory of the ASUS launch product stack is the ROG Astral graphics cards. Potentially a sub-series much like the ROG Strix, it is still marketed as a true ROG model graphics card with the ROG ASTRAL RTX 5090 and ASTRAL RTX 5080 being the flag carrier of the family.

The ROG ASTRAL follows ASUS’ newfound love for space-related names but applies to their modern ROG styling. Aside from the size, the ROG Astral is a big departure from those that are used to the look of the ROG Strix of the RTX 40-series. Its a direct successor of the ROG Matrix, the pinnacle model of all ROG models. With the RTX 50, ASUS ROG splits the seat of the head of the table in two directions: the ROG Astral featuring a massive air-cooling solution, and the ROG Astral LC which uses a similar AIO liquid cooling solution like the ROG Matrix RTX 4090.

The new ROG Astral RTX is available in a factory OC’d model and supposedly a non-OC version. Both already carry slight factory OCs with the OC mode further boosting the card to 2670Mhz and 2790Mhz for the base and OC model, respectively.

In this review, we’ll be reviewing the most polarizing card from the RTX 50 launch spawning memes and an actual gold version for the Middle East. Read on to find out more about the ASUS ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 OC graphics card!

Asus Rog Astral Rtx 5080 Oc 16Gb Graphics Card Review

NVIDIA RTX 50

NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series launch was the worst-kept secret of 2024 and leading up to the first of 2025, the tech world was ready to see what NVIDIA has in-store in hopes of turning things around for the DIY PC space which has been seeing dwindling interest lately no thanks to both Intel and AMD, albeit the Ryzen 7 9800X3D was an expected exception.

Powered by Blackwell, NVIDIA’s domination over machine learning and deep learning has put ray tracing to the wayside focusing on improving the visual experience with the introduction of Neural Rendering.

NVIDIA describes neural rendering as their direction for modern graphics integrating generative AI models to assist in scenes going further than just ray reconstruction. Blackwell introduces Mega Geometry but the most notable development here amongst all is the introduction of Multi-Frame Generation. The next stage of DLSS, DLSS4 brings Multi-Frame Generation enabled by the Blackwell architecture enabling up to 3 more frames to be generated following a single rendered frame, effectively a 4x multiplier. A newer Transformer-based model for DLSS bumps up all DLSS releases benefiting not just the RTX 50 but even previous RTX cards.

All of this is built on a more conservative hardware stack on the GB203 silicon for the RTX 5080. Packing 10752 CUDA cores complemented by 16GB of GDDR7 video memory wired to a 256-bit wide bus resulting in a 960GB/s bandwidth versus the 770GB/s of the RTX 4080.

The RTX 5080 features a base clock of 2295Mhz and a turbo clock of 2617Mhz. Our review unit has a software toggle to activate OC mode to go from 2760Mhz to 2790Mhz on the ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 OC SKU.

Model CUDA Cores Base Clock (GHz) Boost Clock (GHz) Memory Clock (Gbps) GPU Memory Memory Interface Width Ray Tracing Cores Tensor Cores AI TOPS Ray Tracing Performance (TFLOPS) DLSS Version
GeForce RTX 5080 10,752 2.30 2.62 30 GB203 16 GB GDDR7 256-bit 4th Gen 5th Gen 1,801 171 DLSS 4
ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 16G GAMING 10,752 2.30 2.64 (OC Mode 2.67) 30 GB203 16 GB GDDR7 256-bit 4th Gen 5th Gen 1,801 171 DLSS 4
ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 O16G GAMING 10,752 2.30 2.76 (OC Mode 2.79) 30 GB203 16 GB GDDR7 256-bit 4th Gen 5th Gen 1,801 175 DLSS 4
GeForce RTX 5090 21,760 2.01 2.41 28 GB202 32 GB GDDR7 512-bit 4th Gen 5th Gen 3,352 318 DLSS 4
GeForce RTX 4090 16,384 2.23 2.52 21 AD102 24 GB GDDR6X 384-bit 3rd Gen 4th Gen N/A 191 DLSS 3
GeForce RTX 4080 9,728 2.21 2.51 22.4 AD103 16 GB GDDR6X 256-bit 3rd Gen 4th Gen N/A 112 DLSS 3
GeForce RTX 3080 8,704 1.44 1.71 19 GA102 10 GB GDDR6X 320-bit 2nd Gen 3rd Gen N/A 58 DLSS 2
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 3,584 1.48 1.58 11 GP102 11 GB GDDR5X 352-bit N/A N/A N/A N/A
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Official product page – ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 OC

ROG ASTRAL Editions

AIR-COOLED DHAHAB Edition (EMEA Exclusive) LIQUID-COOLED
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RTX 5090 / RTX 5080 RTX 5090 / RTX 5080 (TBD) RTX 5090

1. Introduction & Specification

  • 1. Introduction & Specification
  • 2. Closer Look
  • 3. A Word on Power
  • 4. Power Draw, Temperature, and Clock Speed Analysis
  • 5. Performance Testing – Setup & Methodology
  • 6. Counter-Strike 2
  • 7. DOTA 2
  • 8. PUBG Battlegrounds
  • 9. Rainbow Six Siege
  • 10. Baldur’s Gate 3
  • 11. Black Myth Wukong
  • 12. Cyberpunk 2077
  • 13. F1 2024
  • 14. Ghost of Tsushima: DIRECTOR’S CUT
  • 15. Hogwarts Legacy
  • 16. Horizon Forbidden West
  • 17. The Last of Us Part 1 Remastered
  • 18. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
  • 19. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
  • 20. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • 21. Resident Evil 4
  • 22. Starfield
  • 23. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II
  • 24. Ray Tracing
  • 25. DLSS4
  • 26. Conclusion
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