Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition Review: Beautiful, bulky, and bewilderingly expensive

[Redaktion]

The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC is Asus's most premium offering of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Blackwell GPU. The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC features a quad-axial fan setup, an all-metal build, extra fan headers, and a high factory overclock, but these niceties come at a price that reaches for the stars.

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[16 GB indeed a limitation]

16 GB VRAM can be a limitation in some titles

I wanted to write that even 16 GB VRAM is starting to become not enough, but then I saw you mention it. Tbh, I didn't expect you to know or mention it, so respect. And this is why next year there is going to be a Refresh using 3 GB GDDR7 chips, instead of the current 2 GB ones - a +50% increase in VRAM (NGREEDIA might have extended the timeline by a few months, bc they don't really want to give ppl the needed more VRAM). So, wait, if you can.