Overclocking NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition

[Brent_Justice]

Introduction On January 29th, 2025 we reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition video card, with availability on January 30th, for a retail MSRP of $999. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is practically a GeForce RTX 5090 cut in half, on performance, and price. Its performance wasn’t quite as expected, with some […]

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[kcthebrewer]

I wonder what is preventing the card from automatically clocking higher at stock settings. Maybe NVIDIA needs to adjust their boosting algorithm?

Also curious how close the automatic overclocking in the NVIDIA App gets to manual this generation.

 

[Brian_B]

I wonder what is preventing the card from automatically clocking higher at stock settings. Maybe NVIDIA needs to adjust their boosting algorithm?

My guess would be nVidia intentionally holding it back - so that if AMD does come out with a stunner, nVidia can "magically" come out with a 10% increase via a driver update.

And if AMD doesn't have the right hand to play, nVidia can just hold it back and wait for the Ti edition.

I mean, it's not like nVidia has any competition at any level for this card right now, except for themselves with the 4080. And they stopped production of those, so ...