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The Gaming Pro version looks nice IMO. But agreed about the Gamerock.Figures. The card that doesn't whine also looks like a carnival float
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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread
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Don't mind the whine on my FE (as it obviously only happens while gaming and it's covered by my speakers).
It's the card not being quiet while idle that's a real issue.
Yeah, it's around 5% max at least on my TUF, and you're pulling 100W more and pumping 5 degrees more into your room.
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I now have had experience of four different 5080s and here's my thoughts on them:
- 5080 FE - light to moderate coil whine. Was moderate to loud when I first got it, but amazingly reduced a bit after a day or so. Now it's a generally light whine that fades into the background. A couple of games will still make it squeal, but never at an intrusive volume. The fan noise will also usually drown it out - the fans ramp fairly quickly and are fairly loud (I have overclocked the card to 3.1Ghz) but have a fairly deep sound that is easy to ignore (somewhat Noctua-ish in that regard).
- MSI Ventus 3X OC (non-Plus model) - moderate coil whine. The whine is loud enough to be bothersome, but the fans ramp up on this model very quickly so that becomes the dominant sound when gaming - they get well over 2,000 RPM under load. I did not keep this card as the fans and coil whine meant it just wasn't for me, although for people not bothered by such things it performed exactly as a 5080 should for under a grand.
- MSI Gaming X Trio - light to moderate coil whine. I could hear it clearly, but it was only a little louder than the FE once that calmed down and was tolerable. Fans were audible but I would say the cooler performed slightly better than the FE. I only had this one briefly before returning it to the retailer, so can't say whether it might have improved. I felt it was a decent 'budget' card (dual BIOS, a little RGB, but still quite plasticky and not as much metal in the heat sink). Be aware that although it is slim it is very long so won't fit into some smaller cases (e.g. the Fractal Ridge). I personally would go for the Vanguard or Suprim if MSI is the brand of choice, as I did feel the Gaming X Trio is a little overpriced for a model that fells like a relatively small step up from the basic Ventus. This is £1,289 from a place where the Aorus Master is only £10 less, which brings me on too...
- Gigabyte Aorus Master - very light coil whine. It is audible, but is the least audible of the four I have experienced. I'm keeping this one (along with the FE for my SFF build). I will say that it's not flawless - despite being an absolute chonk of a card, the fans can get pretty loud and make a weird noise when fan stop is engaged (I thought faulty but seems to be a design 'feature'). Hell of an overclocker though if you can live with the fans - Stable 3.2Ghz with 125% power limit (drawing a bit over 400watts in Star Wars Outlaws and 3D Mark Speedway!).
I'm judging coil whine by reference to my day one TUF 4090, which sounds like a pair of hair clippers running and I would class as 'severe'. 3D Mark Speedway and X4:Foundations are my go-to coil whine tests. X4 is great as it can put out high framerates and the load varies so much depending on what you look at it's good for seeing how much the whine varies with load - which I find to be the main irritation.
- 5080 FE - light to moderate coil whine. Was moderate to loud when I first got it, but amazingly reduced a bit after a day or so. Now it's a generally light whine that fades into the background. A couple of games will still make it squeal, but never at an intrusive volume. The fan noise will also usually drown it out - the fans ramp fairly quickly and are fairly loud (I have overclocked the card to 3.1Ghz) but have a fairly deep sound that is easy to ignore (somewhat Noctua-ish in that regard).
- MSI Ventus 3X OC (non-Plus model) - moderate coil whine. The whine is loud enough to be bothersome, but the fans ramp up on this model very quickly so that becomes the dominant sound when gaming - they get well over 2,000 RPM under load. I did not keep this card as the fans and coil whine meant it just wasn't for me, although for people not bothered by such things it performed exactly as a 5080 should for under a grand.
- MSI Gaming X Trio - light to moderate coil whine. I could hear it clearly, but it was only a little louder than the FE once that calmed down and was tolerable. Fans were audible but I would say the cooler performed slightly better than the FE. I only had this one briefly before returning it to the retailer, so can't say whether it might have improved. I felt it was a decent 'budget' card (dual BIOS, a little RGB, but still quite plasticky and not as much metal in the heat sink). Be aware that although it is slim it is very long so won't fit into some smaller cases (e.g. the Fractal Ridge). I personally would go for the Vanguard or Suprim if MSI is the brand of choice, as I did feel the Gaming X Trio is a little overpriced for a model that fells like a relatively small step up from the basic Ventus. This is £1,289 from a place where the Aorus Master is only £10 less, which brings me on too...
- Gigabyte Aorus Master - very light coil whine. It is audible, but is the least audible of the four I have experienced. I'm keeping this one (along with the FE for my SFF build). I will say that it's not flawless - despite being an absolute chonk of a card, the fans can get pretty loud and make a weird noise when fan stop is engaged (I thought faulty but seems to be a design 'feature'). Hell of an overclocker though if you can live with the fans - Stable 3.2Ghz with 125% power limit (drawing a bit over 400watts in Star Wars Outlaws and 3D Mark Speedway!).
I'm judging coil whine by reference to my day one TUF 4090, which sounds like a pair of hair clippers running and I would class as 'severe'. 3D Mark Speedway and X4:Foundations are my go-to coil whine tests. X4 is great as it can put out high framerates and the load varies so much depending on what you look at it's good for seeing how much the whine varies with load - which I find to be the main irritation.
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Tuff 5090 just came back in stock in the UK today as well (10 minutes ago). Have we had one that hasn't been too bad?
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Excellent write up, thank you!
I'm tempted by the Gigabyte but it's kinda pricey. What bothers me about these big AIB cards is you don't know how close it's going to push your 12VHPWR cable towards the side panel. The Asus TUF 5080 had OK room in my current case but the Gigabyte is 4mm wider. HOWEVER, the socket is set really far bar so would be better than the Asus. I don't suppose you could measure the distance from the back edge to the tip of the pwer connector, could you? Don't worry if that's a hassle.
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Nice to see the Tuff doing well in that example.
Seems too early to draw any real conclusions yet.
Seems too early to draw any real conclusions yet.
Is there a standard for what constitutes as "low coil whine"? Like for example, my TUF has no coil whine at idle, low amount when playing games, only occurs during LLM inference or when stress testing/3DMark. I wonder what that dude means when he says "low coil whine" as it's the first time someone hasn't complained about that card on this thread lol
I'm at the office at the moment, but I recall the power connector on the Aorus is very (and helpfully, unless you have a very chunky cable) recessed. It was less of a challenge to fit width-wise than my TUF 4090. I have a Strimer attached to the GPU power cable in an O11D Mini and it would press against the glass with the TUF 4090, whereas it does not with the Aorus 5080.