Packaging

The Card

Colorful is using an elegant color mix of black with various silvery highlights on their card. On the back you get a metal backplate with a large cutout.


Dimensions of the card are 36.0 x 15.0 cm, and it weighs 2796 g.


Installation requires four slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 70 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and two HDMI 2.1b.

Standard for all GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell cards is a new display engine that supports three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, each capable of UHBR20; and one HDMI 2.1a. Both interfaces support DSC (display stream compression). With DSC enabled, a single DisplayPort on this card can drive 4K 12-bit HDR at 480 Hz; or 8K 12-bit HDR at up to 165 Hz. The RTX 5080 features an updated media acceleration engine with support for 4:2:2 video formats, AV1 UHQ, and MV-HEVC. There are two independent NVENC and NVDEC units.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which allows a maximum power draw of 600 W.

To the left of the power connector, Colorful has placed their "Lighting Sync Interface," which lets you connect the card's RGB lighting to the motherboard.


Colorful has added RGB illumination zones running along the cooler frame and on the back of the card.

Teardown

Colorful's thermal solution uses nine heatpipes and a vapor-chamber baseplate. It provides cooling not only for the GPU, but also for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate protects the card against damage during installation and handling.