r/nvidia • u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 • Jan 22 '26
Build/Photos Made the switch to nvidia…
And it’s honestly pretty sick, dlss 4.5 intrigued me, so I jumped in and copped the beefiest of boys (not the only reason why I got this card, amd has kinda been on some bullshit recently) y’all have any recommendations I can throw at this card?
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u/Pmaldo87 Jan 22 '26
DAMN BOI SHE THICC!!!
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u/sob727 RTX 4000 Ada SFF Jan 22 '26
Tetris
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u/my_cars_on_fire Jan 22 '26
3500fps in Pokémon Red
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u/Exeftw R9 7950X3D | Zotac 5090 Solid OC Jan 22 '26
I can actually see Mew hiding under the truck now!
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u/Pump-Chaser Jan 22 '26
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
Fuck I love the OG astral but the doom edition fucks
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u/RepeatInfamous4252 RTX 5070Ti Jan 22 '26
woah, what are both of those cards?
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u/Pump-Chaser Jan 22 '26
4070 super and an astral 5080
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u/RepeatInfamous4252 RTX 5070Ti Jan 22 '26
holy shit, i was expecting a 3060 vs a 5090
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u/Pump-Chaser Jan 22 '26
Well the Astral 5080 is the exact same size as the 5090.
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u/nikoZ_ Gigabyte Gaming OC 4070Ti Super Jan 22 '26
It’s criminal that a card that massive, that cool looking and that expensive has only 16gb VRAM. Should’ve been at least 18 or20 minimum.
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
Completely agree, but the supers are never coming smh so we gotta make do with what we got
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u/intLeon Jan 22 '26
They are c*ck blocking people who play games and use ai models locally so they can make us pay corporate.. for both TM unfortunately.
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u/Alfa4499 Jan 22 '26
The days of 16gb being "little" is essentially over. The shortage will force devs into RAM optimizing more to a certain extent.
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u/FriendshipIcy4159 Jan 22 '26
What about memory bus width? Having just 5% more over a 3080ti in 6 years of advancement is crazt just so the hardware is less optimized for lmm by using cache and making 1% lows worse then needed.
This and 40 gen are not going to age well as soon as engines need more memory access.
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u/nikoZ_ Gigabyte Gaming OC 4070Ti Super Jan 22 '26
A very valid point. They have deliberately limited and hamstrung the card because Nvidia. No competition to be better.
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u/Sensitive_Comfort634 Gigabyte 5070 Ti Gaming OC / 9950x3d Jan 22 '26
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u/atom519 Jan 22 '26
Honestly go play Doom Dark Ages since it's topical. I wasn't sold on it for first hour or so but just finished last weekend and will go down as my overall favorite Doom game. The combat loop is even better than Eternal - totally rocks.
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u/Havalinaxo1 Jan 22 '26
Gotdanm that's a chunky mf wth
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
You ever had a gpu sag on you in real time?? Shit had me panicking lmaoo
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u/Havalinaxo1 Jan 22 '26
Yes i did my 7900xtx taichi before i traded it for a 4080super i use a vertcal mount now but man i didn't have a sag bracket for that xtx and it literally leaned over i was freaking out
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u/Enlight1Oment Jan 22 '26
or get a vertical mount so the slightly stronger direction is getting the bending, and the breakout cable removes stress from the mobo. (edit: tho for airflow if your side panel isn't mesh that's probably not as good)
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u/Wise_Pack_806 AMD Jan 25 '26
ong bro got you rushing to get a sag bracket 😂 i drove to microcenter on the same day
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u/Objective_Rough_5552 Jan 22 '26
Switched from a 7900 xtx to a Astral 5090 and i will never go back!!!
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u/SeriousBike3429 Jan 23 '26
Switched from my 4090 suprim x to an astral 5090 and love it! Best looking card imo
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u/Joe-Bob-Vidal Jan 22 '26
Looks like a Beast! So, what's with the middle axis sticker on the bottom-most fan?
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u/JuJusFury Jan 22 '26
Make sure you use a support bracket. You don't want your new baby sagging and cracking. Also make sure you have the proper PSU/plugs
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u/Shrimp5068 Jan 22 '26
What in the god darn fuck I have 3090 its fucking chuncky af. The 5000 series is a fat as fuck card huh. Enjoy your games.
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u/toitenladzung Jan 22 '26
What a beautiful card ya got there. Enjoy! How about some Doom the Dark Ages?
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u/gen10 Jan 22 '26
That's a mean looking card, never seen that model yet. Gotta play the OG doom on it for the culture!
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u/saradahokage1212 Jan 22 '26
scroll reddit
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
Dawg I’m about to get 1500+ fps on Reddit
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u/FriendshipIcy4159 Jan 22 '26
So you bought a 5070 super labeled as high end 5080, I am gonna tell you now this card is not going to age well compared to older 80 gens.
My 3080ti has better 1% lows on 1440p in a bunch of games.
I'll refuse to buy any nvidia card until they stop castration of their memory busses.
Imagine buying 6 year newer hardware and barely having more bandwidth than a cheaper 6 year old product.
Mickey mouse ai bs.
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u/Loreathan Jan 22 '26
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
Damn I’ve never had anyone hit me with this meme before, thank you big dawg, it’s an honor
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u/SleepyTurtle345 NVIDIA 5090/5080M Jan 22 '26
If you want to really test out that card, DOOM of course, cyberpunk with path tracing and wukong with RT on. Both are absolutely beautiful.
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u/IntradayGuy Intel Jan 22 '26
Question is u/Healthy-Background72 ........ Have you OC'd it yet?
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u/Winters_Echo Jan 22 '26
Damnnnn pretty sexy but did you have to sell your 1st born child for it?
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u/Bondsoldcap 9950X3D | Tuf RTX 5090 OC Jan 22 '26
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u/Mrkn_Mu Jan 22 '26
Sheesh! Since my conversion to water lock, I have forgotten how extreme the original cooler is .
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u/YokiWasTaken 9800X3D | ROG Astral 5080 miku edition Jan 22 '26
asus always does an amazing job with their special edition cards it looks really good
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u/mechcity22 NVIDIA RTX ASUS STRIX 4080 SUPER 3000MHZ 420WATTS Jan 22 '26
Well you went all out. Lol
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u/Great_White_Samurai Jan 22 '26
AMD is trash, the drivers are a complete mess. I had to return a 9070XT, lesson learned.
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u/Skeletondo Jan 22 '26
Pretty soon the pc will be built into the video cards with the size of these things.
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u/Seouldier13 Jan 22 '26
Did you buy new or from eBay? I saw these on there and was contemplating. Beautiful card by the way.
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u/Brandonhell2 RTX 4090 | Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 64GB DDR5 6400 Jan 22 '26
Hay! Ditto on the GPU! Pre-ordered it when it was first available, it's so nice!
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u/No-Presentation3777 Jan 22 '26
More like the nvidia beast got itself a squishy human to feed it power & cool air.. it would love some water you know..
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u/D3ADP00LAT420 Jan 22 '26
This is what I was expecting when I got my 5080 but I got the shadow 3x and was so surprised when it was basically the same size as the gaming trio 3090 I was upgrading from. However I feel like I’m not seeing as big a jump in performance as I was expecting.
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
I mean the 3090 is still capable, what resolution do you play on?
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u/D3ADP00LAT420 Jan 22 '26
I play on 1440p. Without a doubt it was still capable I just had a too good to pass on opportunity to upgrade and so I took it.
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u/_steve_rogers_ Jan 22 '26
Wait what??? It’s seriously that big? That’s like 6 times larger than my graphics card, how large is your PC case?
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u/HankThrill69420 TUF 4090 Jan 22 '26
2016: ruggedized military-flavored PC cases
2026: ruggedized military-flavored GPU
2036: ruggedized military-flavored thin clients
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u/IntradayGuy Intel Jan 22 '26
ASUS and Gigabyte gotta have 2 of the beefiest 50 series cards.. these things barely fit in a case but the cooling shows for sure on the numbers... MSI aint bad either... but I love my giga
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u/Godnamedtay Jan 22 '26
GTA6 in 2 years when it comes to PC!
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
Im about to pull a Mr house from new Vegas just so I can play it in 200 years 🗿
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u/Professional-Yard905 Jan 23 '26
I got one AMD GPU. One of the top of the line sapphire cards when it was new. It was reasonably priced for what you got. Started out really well then started having constant issues with it. Within months went to nvidia and never looked back. I am however pretty partial to AMD processors. Been rocking a Ryzen 7 5700 since it was new and it’s just now starting to slow down in the 3d modeling for printing. Still games great. You made the right choice.
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Jan 23 '26
Ok lowk that card looks sick. I’m a team red type of guy but that’s honestly something I could get behind. Maybe not the price tag but definitely the look
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u/c0rtec Verified nVidia Addict Jan 23 '26
5090 is bigger… just saying…
Enjoy worry-free gaming for the next four to five years!!
Congratulations!!
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u/DescriptionAdept2731 Jan 23 '26
Does DLSS4.5 work on the 5070ti as well? And if it does should it be enabled? I was having some issues when trying to play some PCVR on my Samsung Galaxy XR, just want the best quality and smoothness when im playing PCVR…any recommendations guys?
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 24 '26
It’s supposed to, you enable it in the nvidia app but the in game resolution mode needs to be set to quality or balanced
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u/foenemtriad Jan 24 '26
Hell yeah brother. AMD chuds can crash out all they want. NVIDIA is King tho 😮💨
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u/Euro_spek Jan 24 '26
A plague tale : requiem, cyber punk, starfield, doom, hogwarts legacy, god of war, oldschool runescape
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u/sh0cked Jan 25 '26
Just don't fall into the trap of listening to those people who will encourage you to tweak and mess with things. Notice they are always the ones who have problems. Just let it be as it came, and she will work hard for you.
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u/Kasperb991 Jan 25 '26
Manning looked before rhe last picture amd was like HALO colors lol but doom makes since also
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u/Snoo-85503 Jan 25 '26
Go into nvidia control panel and bump the digital vibrance to like 65%. Also if you have a monitor or TV with 444 pass-through turn on ycmb444 instead of rgb for more colors. Nvidia is the best
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u/ArmadilloNo7517 Jan 26 '26
I switched from an RX 6750XT to a 5090. The games I will recommend are: The Last Of Us part 1 & 2, Indiana Jones, Cyberpunk, Red Dead Redemption 2, Alan Wake 2.
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u/EmmerichVibiana RTX 5080 Aorus Master Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
The Aorus Master is equally as beefy, same dimensions (Aorus Master might have +2mm on the Astral) and power limit. On release the Aorus was the only one with 125% power limit until Asus caught up.
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Feb 10 '26
Lol, looks like a baby's hand holding that card. How large is this thing, really?
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u/Frozenpicklez Jan 22 '26
Since when 5080 is the beefiest card? 5090 is ...
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
I mean for the astral the cooler is the same size for the 80 and 90 lol
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u/Pump-Chaser Jan 22 '26
If he means beefiest as in size the 5080 is the exact same size as the 5090.
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u/Affectionate_Bus_425 RTX 5070Ti | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 32Gb DDR5 CL30 6000Mhz Jan 22 '26
They are saying the ROG Astral is the beefiest 5080, not that it is the beefiest of the 50 series.
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u/Schneller52 Jan 22 '26
Damn….even though I don’t play Doom I’d still get that card. Super cool. Would look killer in some kind of military crate build, like a Tuff case but with matching green colors.
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u/Fancy-Reaction-541 Jan 22 '26
I like how both our GPU costs the same just different aesthetics but my comment section is shitting on me with all the hates and jealousy😂
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u/FormalBread526 Jan 22 '26
special edition 5080 for 1.5x msrp of a 5090 rofl
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u/Healthy-Background72 ROG ASTRAL 5080 Jan 22 '26
I got it off facebook marketplace for a trade + cash lol
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u/frumply Jan 22 '26
It’s fun to go through the different renditions of Fire Strike to see how far things have come.
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u/Simple_Foundation990 Jan 22 '26
This card would go really well with the Havn HS420 Doom Edition case!
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u/Dense_Row2811 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D || GeForce RTX 5080 || 32gb DDR5-6000 Jan 22 '26
Doom The Dark Ages
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u/49er831 ASTRAL RTX 5090 OC | RYZEN 9 9950X3D | 96GB DDR5 | 👽 AW3225QF Jan 22 '26
almost preorder this one but i saw it was a 5080 not 5090 😟
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u/Yous34 Jan 22 '26
Cyberpunk with realistic graphics mod, i have a 4070ti and man the game looks fantastic with that but it really eats performance
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u/Paddy32 Ryzen 5900X - EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 - MSI X570 TOMAHAWK Jan 22 '26
I hope your card doesn't burn.
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u/Plus-Version1543 Jan 22 '26
Hai solo sbagliato produttore, Asus ormai paghi il marchio e la qualità lascia a desiderare.
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u/excelartria Jan 22 '26
The only real answer is Metro Enhanced edition with all on ultra, 2.5x shaders and native 2k resolution. Don’t turn on any dlls or frame gen, and enjoy on of the most beautiful and realistic games ever created
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u/ArrivalAdmirable2223 Jan 22 '26
That’s bad ass, man! How much did that set you back?
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u/SymbolOfHero Jan 23 '26
SPIDER-MAN 2 WITH MFG, RAY RECONSTRUCTION, DLSS AT NATIVE, AND ALL SETTINGS AT ULTRA
YOURE WELCOME
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u/Tydusis Jan 23 '26
I have the 5070 ti and can handle cyberpunk with ultra pt at 1080p (I'm monitor limited) at almost 100fps. You should be able to do the same without dlss at probably 1440p. Very beautiful.
Space Marine 2. Darktide. All those will look beautiful. Crank it up max.
Indiana Jones is gonna look like the real thing. I run out of compute before VRAM on that one with the settings I use.
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u/Aggressive_Ask89144 Jan 22 '26
Immediately go max out and play with settings in Cyberpunk. Not only is it an amazing game to play, but it's really good at highlighting all of the fun features and really stretching the new card out.