Review: ROG ASTRAL RTX 5080 OC Edition

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UL Procyon AI Image / Text Generation:

UL Procyon AI Image Generation:

UL Benchmark not only offers its 3DMark benchmark suite but also, UL Procyon, to meet the demand for Artificial Intelligence evaluation. This benchmark was chosen for its ease of implementation. The benchmark will generate 4 x 4 images and provide us with a score as well as a result in the form of the time, in seconds, required to generate an image. The software supports several AI inference engines depending on the GPU used.

We will therefore use the benchmark in Stable Diffusion 1.5 (FP16) mode. It is intended for mid-range GPUs. The test will create 16 images at a resolution of 512 x 512 in batches of 4. There is a test called Stable Diffusion XL (FP16), where 16 images will be created, at 1024 x 1024, in batches of 1.

Unfortunately, our ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC Edition is not recognised by the software and should be updated as soon as the cards are released. However, here are the performances of our other cards and we will update both graphics as soon as our ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC Editionis supported.

On the other hand, the 5th generation Tensor Cores provide support for the FP4 (Floating Point 4 bits) format, which will double the calculation performance of neural models while halving the memory footprint. This improvement is based on an essential compromise: FP4 uses less precision than traditional formats such as FP16 or FP32. However, for many deep learning models, this precision is sufficient to maintain reliable results while considerably reducing the load on memory and computing units. So we carried out the test with our ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC Edition and here’s the result.

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These two FP8 and FP4 tests are based on a beta version that we have received from NVIDIA. We have a licence for UL Procyon, but these tests are not yet available and will probably be as of January 30. As soon as the software is up to date, we’ll run the tests again.

UL Procyon AI Text Generation :

The latest benchmark added to this test suite, AI Text Generation. The Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmark provides a more compact and easier way to repeatedly and consistently test AI performance with multiple LLM AI models. UL says it has worked closely with many AI software and hardware leaders to ensure that the benchmark tests take full advantage of the local AI accelerator of the systems used.

We can see that the differences are smaller between this new ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC Edition and the RTX 4090, while AMD is a long way behind.