It’s been a year since we saw a new graphics card festooned in Noctua’s iconic shades of brown. But for those who’ve been waiting for an RTX 50-series upgrade, it’s almost here. The official “Noctua Edition” of the Asus GeForce RTX 5080 has been exhaustively detailed in a new video. There are only two details missing: a price and a date.

The new RTX 5080 version of the Asus-Noctua teamup , now entering its third generation, is a little more buttoned-down than the previous ones. The oversized triple-fan cooler has just a bit of extra adornment with one chevron and some ever-so-slight ring decorations on either side. (It’s giving me owl vibes, obviously.)

If you’re wondering, those fans are Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 fans, 25mm wide each. That means a—ahem— robust size of 385mm long and 80mm

See Full Page