Asus 5080 Prime Impressions
I miraculously picked up an Asus 5080 Prime at MSRP this week and I thought I would share my thoughts on the card as there aren’t a lot of reviews for it yet.
It basically performs the same as a 5080 FE. I compared my Port Royal and Steel Nomad scores to other review sites and they’re all about the same.
The cooler is better than I thought it would be. I ran Steel Nomad on a loop for 4 hours in a 19C room and the temperatures plateaued at 65C-66C in my Lancool II with bottom intake fans (all locked to the medium setting). Using the performance BIOS the card isn’t particularly loud.
During the Steel Nomad run it pulled between 338W-355W while maintaining a boost clock between 2730Mhz-2745Mhz.
So in short for a 5080 it’s totally fine. I also measured my power connector periodically and it plateaued at around 42C according to my infrared thermometer (which is admittedly not the best way to do that).
I’m hoping the phase change thermal pad keeps the temperature even throughout the whole card for a long while as the lack of a hotspot temperature sensor means there’s no way to know if there’s a non-obvious issue with cooler contact (as far as I know that’s an NVIDIA cutback).