Back in CES 2023, ASUS announced a GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition card, effectively continuing the tradition after the RTX 3070 and 3080, as well as indicating its continued partnership with the Austrian brand. Today, the card is officially available in Malaysia
Then, as now, the RTX 4080 Noctua Edition is a graphics card with a thick heatsink that takes up a whopping 4.3-slots on the motherboard and inside a casing. Flanking the heatsink is a dual Noctua NF-A12x25 fan configuration, designed and developed in partnership with ASUS’ R&D team and Noctua’s own engineers. Still on the fans, the Noctua NF-A12x25 120mm fans have blades – also known as impellers – that are made from the brand’s own proprietary Sterrox liquid crystal polymer, allowing them to sit just 0.5mm away from the shroud’s outer frame. The benefits of having fan blades this close to the heatsink reduce the airflow leakage, while prioritising the low noise levels that they are famed for.
That massive chunk of metal sitting on the GPU of the RTX 4080 Noctua Edition has also been evolved by the engineers at Noctua. It now houses an expansive vapour chamber, comprising eight heat pipes. This design, ASUS says, allows the card to peak at a maximum operating temperature of 61.7°C, although this number is subject to the ambient temperature of the environment that the card is running in.
As for the specifications of the card, the card has a boost clock of 2595MHz out of the box, and an OC Mode that pushes the speeds ever so slightly to 2625MHz. Beyond that and the obvious cooling solution, it’s still got the same 16GB GDDR6X, 9728 CUDA Core, 256-bit memory bus, and the same 320W TDP. Oh, and you’ll still need to use NVIDIA’s proprietary 16-pin 12VHPWR connector, in order to power the card.
The ASUS GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition retails for RM6999.
