ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7

The ASUS RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is the quietest air-cooled GPU we've tested, with top-tier ray tracing and raster performance. It's expensive and huge, but if silence matters as much as speed, this is the card to get. European buyers should grab the EUR 2,860 Spanish listing before it's gone.

This thing rips. The RTX 5080 chip pushes 56.28 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and scores 35,759 in PassMark G3D, which lands it in the top 5% of all cards we track. 4K gaming is a 90/100 in our scoring, and 1440p sits just behind at 89.3. Ray tracing performance is the absolute best right now, 98th percentile, and efficiency is a standout at 97th. The weakest spot is AI/LLM workloads at 78/100, which is still solid but not why you'd buy this card. Memory bandwidth is 960 GB/s, enough to feed 4K textures without breaking a sweat.

Against the Gigabyte AERO OC, this ASUS Noctua Edition trades blows on raw speed but wins decisively on noise. The Gigabyte card is no slouch, but it doesn't have Noctua fans and its cooler runs louder under load. The MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti is cheaper and smaller, but it's a tier down in performance, you're giving up roughly 15-20% raster speed and a chunk of VRAM bandwidth. The ZOTAC AMP Extreme Infinity is the closest competitor on cooling quality, but its triple fan setup still doesn't match Noctua's acoustic profile. If silence is your priority, nothing else in this class comes close.

Pricing is all over the place depending on where you live. In Europe you can find it between EUR 2,860 and EUR 3,429, with the best deal on the Spanish listing at EUR 2,860. That's a EUR 569 spread, so shop around before committing. In the US it's listed at USD 3,570, and Canada gets hit with CAD 4,970. For a card that delivers best-in-class ray tracing and near-silent operation, the European pricing feels reasonable for what you get. The North American prices are harder to swallow, especially when competitors offer similar raw performance for less.

ASUS teamed up with Noctua for this one, and the result is the quietest air-cooled GPU we've tested. Three NF-A12x25 G2 fans spin slow and stay nearly silent while a vapor chamber and phase change thermal pad keep the RTX 5080 chip happy. It's a 385mm monster though, so measure your case before you click buy.

Under the hood you get 16GB of GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus, 84 RT cores, 336 Tensor cores, and a 2730MHz boost clock in OC mode. DLSS 4 and ray tracing are here, and the card hits the 95th percentile for raster performance in our database. It's not cheap, but it's built for people who want flagship speed without the jet engine soundtrack.

Skip this if you're building in a compact case, 385mm is a dealbreaker for most mid-towers and all ITX builds. Also skip it if you need strong AI or LLM performance, the 78/100 score there is fine but not worth the premium. And if you're on a budget, the MSI Ventus 5070 Ti gets you most of the gaming experience for significantly less money.

Buy this if you want flagship 4K gaming performance and you hate fan noise. It's the card for people who've tried other high-end GPUs and got annoyed by the whine under load. The Noctua collaboration isn't a gimmick, it's genuinely the quietest air-cooled card we've tested. Just make sure your case can handle 385mm of GPU and your wallet can handle the price.