ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 OC Video Card Review

Temperature & Power Consumption

The gaming performance on a graphics card is the most important factor in buying a card, but you also need to be concerned about the noise, temperature and power consumption numbers.

ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 OC Temperatures:

When we first started using the ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 OC the 0dB fans didn’t spin at idle, but after updating drivers and installing ASUS GPU Tweak II we noticed that the fans always ran. We aren’t sure what was causing this quick, but removing ASUS GPU Tweak II didn’t solve the issue. We didn’t take the time to try different drivers since we were actually okay with the fans running at low-speeds all the time. Idle temperatures were 27-29C in a room with an ambient temperature of 74F and we only hit 63C at load. The fan was spinning at ~840RPM at idle and got up to 1860RPM at load. Noise levels were more than acceptable and it shouldn’t be heard too much inside a case with good airflow even while gaming. The fan ramps seemed okay and there was no choke buzz or whine from our review card while gaming and we did play for hours and hours on this model to try it out.

Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we ran Rainbow Six Siege at 1440P and recorded the peak power number while the in-game benchmark was running. This is done to ensure the results are repeatable.

Power Consumption Results: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 FE uses more power at idle since the ROG STRIX 2080 OC at idle most often had the fans in 0dB mode (until we switched drivers and lost 0dB mode). At load the ROG STRIX 2080 OC used 10 Watts more power, which isn’t bad considering the healthy overclock on the card.