Palit RTX 5080 GameRock OC Review

Temperatures and Power Draw

Temperatures and Power Draw

The drivers on modern graphics cards are more willing to cap their performance when you hit thermal limits. This means that, by and large, most cards top out around the 80 degree mark. Power draw is far more important. Thankfully, if the RTX 5090 power requirements worried you, the RTX 5080 is much kinder to your energy bill. Proving that lower power demands mean cooler temperatures more than a giant noisy fan does, the Palit GameRock is the coolest and most frugal of our RTX 5080s.