My hazy recollection, which may be wrong, was that many 40 series cards were hard power-limited via their BIOS, which could be flashed if you really wanted to go all out.
But yes, really not a bad showing for the 5080 at all!
Yup you could get 1000W VBIOS for them. Maybe Nvidia blocked the VBIOS power modding on the 50 series, time will tell, once one company makes one with 2 x these fire risk connectors on them and a VBIOS leaks out.
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