ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on

[btarunr]

ASUS showed us its GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card that it formally announced yesterday. To call this card thick would be an understatement, as it's possibly the first graphics card that is 5 slots thick! The card easily overshoots what constitutes 4 slots, and is technically 4.2 to 4.3 slots; but then expansion slot counts are whole numbers rounded to the next digit despite what marketing says.

This card combines an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 PCB with an air-based cooling solution designed by Noctua. The cooler has two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes, and ventilated by a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans that feature fluid-dynamic bearings. The fan-tuning for this card is a Noctua-ASUS collaboration, and promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 you can buy.



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[arestavo]

Too bad it's a 4080 and not a 4090.

 

[Guwapo77]

Are they getting any better performance with all that? 5 slots for a non-flagship GPU is a waste of time and money imho.

 

[phanbuey]

Too bad it's a 4080 and not a 4090.

It's such a loud and power hungry card, we really needed a beefier cooler and an extra $40 worth of fans on it.

 

[claes]

and an extra $40 worth of fans on it.

*$60

 

[Chaitanya]

Given colour scheme of Notcua that looks like construction brick.

 

[Rowsol]

There are already inaudible 4080s. Not sure why they needed to make an even bigger one.

 

[Space Lynx]

There are already inaudible 4080s. Not sure why they needed to make an even bigger one.

So you can overclock it and it still remains quiet

But yeah, can't really afford a 4080, let alone this monster. I mean this will probably cost so much you won't be far away from a stock 4090 price point... so eh. Pointless really

 

[KrazyT]

technically 4.2 to 4.3 slots
two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes
a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans
promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080

I hope so !
It's the minimum we can expect of this card.
There will be something wrong (or useless) if it's not crushing the competitors RTX 4080

 

[katzi]

LOL Bloody knew it'd be THICCC

 

[AusWolf]

It doesn't even fit in my case - or any mATX case, in fact. Nice work!

 

[Dirt Chip]

Brick of the month.
At least those have proper fans (and a noctua\strix face

 

[Deleted member 185088]

and is technically 4.2 to 4.3 slots

Since when a slot is a unit of measurement?
Slots should be whole numbers, so either 4 or 5 slots.
We live in a made world

 

[AusWolf]

Since when a slot is a unit of measurement?
Slots should be whole numbers, so either 4 or 5 slots.
We live in a made world

The world has turned upside down and inside out. Slot is a unit of measurement now, apparently. I'm exactly 118.3 slots tall.

I can't wait until number of fans becomes a unit of measurement, too, so we can express it in decimals.

 

[brutlern]

Asus: let's make a noctua GPU
Noctua: here's a couple of spare fans we had lying around
Asus: but these are standard thick case fans
Noctua: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Asus: 5 slots it is

The reason it's "5 slots" thicc and not 4.2 or 4.3 is because if it sticks into the 5th slot even a little, it makes that slot unusable, so whether it's 4.1 or 4.99, it blocks 5 slots.

 

[Outback Bronze]

Now that's what I call a brick! Or in Australia we call em Fast Walls.

 

[natr0n]

You have to charge rent for that mofo.

 

[Jeager]

Soon we will need a case just for the GPU

 

[brutlern]

Soon we will need a case just for the GPU

Soon the case will be in the GPU

 

[Broken Processor]

I was going to say it's the size of a brick but we are into concrete block territory now

 

[PLAfiller]

Brick of the month.

This had me rolling Should be a show name/column name of its own.

I guess this will not fit into mITX cases with three slots then. Perhaps into some larger mATX depending on the space left below the last slot.

It will cover all PCI-e slots on a mATX MB too.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Asus really lost its sense apparently...

 

[Dazzm8]

If it was black I'd give it a look.

This ridiculous noctua colour scheme can get stuffed.

 

[TheDeeGee]

All these complaints about the size...

This is clearly for silent aircooling enthausiasts and Noctua fans, let us have some joy as well.

For you SFF users there are still 2-slot options out there with shitty heatsinks and noisy fans.

 

[john_]

I can understand this kind of monstrosity for a 4090 card, but 4080? Why? The price will be probably putting it too close to "cheaper" RTX 4090 models.