Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window.
has been a much-maligned graphics card since its launch. It is a smaller, more power-hungry GPU than its Ada predecessor, and doesn't really offer a whole lot more silicon than the. Yes, it's ostensibly the same price, but is only delivering around 15% higher frame rates at 4K, and less at lower resolutions.
I'm seeing over 500 MHz extra performance to play with, which is giving me practically another 10% higher frame rates. And all without really taxing the power or thermal performance of the Founders Edition board. What's different here, with the RTX 5080, is that even those factory overclocked cards are offering something different. The Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 is offering a +173 MHz overclock and the Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5080 a +188 MHz overclock. We've not seen that level of confidence from a manufacture when it comes to their OC cards in a long while.
It very much would not go to +550 MHz, though. That way lay catastrophic failure, black screens, and a GPU that was rather tentative about going quite so high again when I rebooted. Having let it lie for a wee while I then went back to +525 MHz and it has remained stable since.
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