Test Rig
For our tests, we used our Project Aqua Hydrangea PC Build which consists of a Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Elite X ICE motherboard
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080 or 2560×1440. High or Ultra settings enabled.
One thing I did notice with our test system, is that the performance of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor (although Intel’s latest) is slightly below that of their previous 14th Gen Core i9-14900K in some tests. Intel I am MOST disappointed with you!
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor @ default clock speed |
| Cooling | Thermaltake ToughLiquid Ultra 360 AIO Cooler |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Elite X ICE |
| Ram | Pariot Viper Gaming Extreme 5 DDR5-8000 48GB Memory Kit |
| XMP profiles | Yes – XMP 3.0 Profile 1 |
| SSD/HDD | Crucial T700 PCIE Gen5 1TB |
| PSU | Thermaltake ToughPower GF3 1000W Gold Power Supply |
| VGA card | MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC Launch Edition (16GB GDDR7) |
| Drivers | Latest Nvidia Drivers |
| OS | Windows 11 |
GPU-Z Info
The GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is so new, GPU-Z is having trouble identifying it fully. It doesn’t show Technology (nm) type or the memory type, but it does show the boost clock speed of 2,730 Mhz and 16GB of memory with a speed of 30Gbps (2 x 15,001 MHz) on a 256-bit memory bus. We shall revisit once the drivers and software have been updated
AIDA64 GPU Info
For AIDA64, we could only get information about the clock rate, memory speed and memory bus. We shall revisit once the drivers and software have been updated
PassMark 11 – Performance Test (3D Test)
Test the speed of your 3D video card by selecting from options such as fogging, lighting, alpha blending, wire frame, texturing, resolution, color depth, object rotation and object displacement. Separate tests for DirectX 9,10,11 & 12. With support for 4K resolution.
Load Temperatures
A full load, the GPU temperature reached a high of only 52 degrees Celsius, which is astonishingly low. There maybe an issue with HW Monitor not reading the temperature correctly. This is also true with the temperature for the GPU hotspot, which reads 255 degrees Celsius (I think it’s not reading it correctly).
Again, we shall revisit once the drivers and software have been updated. In any case the new Hyper FROZR thermal design from MSI will definitely help keep the temperatures down.
The power draw was surprisingly low at only 250.46W. The maximum according to Nvidia for the GeForce RTX 5080 is around 360W. So I’m pretty than happy with this, but mind you I only tested it with one application at 100% load. The power draw may increase further with other more GPU intensive applications.
