Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 5080 Xtreme Waterforce 16G

Written analysis

Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 5080 Xtreme Waterforce 16G at a glance

The Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 5080 Xtreme Waterforce 16G is a GIGABYTE retail card of the RTX 5080 on Blackwell 2.0. It is not marked as a factory-overclocked board ; the GPU’s reference boost is 2617 MHz.

Length is 220 mm and it occupies 2.0 slots (L=220 W=130 H=40). Board power is 360 W with 16-pin x 1 . Outputs: DisplayPort 2.1b x3 HDMI 2.1b x1. Warranty is 36 months.

This is a short card and is a better candidate for compact cases than most RTX 5080 partners.

Best fit: Compact builds that need this GPU in a shorter board design, subject to slot-width clearance.

Inherited GPU performance

Raster scores come from the RTX 5080, not from this cooler. At 1440p that is 71.95% of the dataset’s best (strong), with 77% at 1080p and 65% at 4K. The chip uses 16 GB GDDR7.

This card’s 1440p value is 29.2 performance per dollar. Other RTX 5080 partners in the card table may be cheaper for the same silicon.

Compare other GIGABYTE and partner boards of this GPU in the RTX 5080 retail-card table.