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GeForce RTX 5080 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT

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Key Differences

  • RTX 5080 is 6.7% faster than RX 9070 XT (3 measured runs at 4K).
  • RX 9070 XT has the lowest comparable median asking price at $740; RTX 5080 is $1,580.
  • RTX 5080 has the most memory bandwidth: 960 GB/s against 644.6 GB/s.
  • RX 9070 XT draws the least power: 304 W against 360 W.
  • Core counts are not comparable across these architectures.
Spec GeForce RTX 5080 Radeon RX 9070 XT AMD
Overview
Product name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
4Kgaming performance 61.3 FPS 53.3 FPS 1% low 3 games 57.4 FPS 49.5 FPS 1% low 3 games
Market price $1,580 US · New retail 59 observations, updated 1 day ago $740 US · New retail 48 observations, updated 1 day ago
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 4.0
Generation / family GeForce RTX 50 Series Radeon RX 9000 Series
GPU codename GB203 Unknown
Launch date 2025-01-30 2025-03-06
Market segment Desktop, High End in GeForce RTX 50 Series Gaming
Board type / entry type Reference GPU Reference GPU
GPU
Process node TSMC 5 nm TSMC 4 nm
Die size 378 mm² 357 mm²
Transistor count 45.6 billion 53.9 billion
GPU chip GB203 Navi 48
SM / multiprocessor count 84 Unknown
Shader processors Raw counts do not scale linearly across architectures or generations. 10752 CUDA Cores 4096 Stream Processors
AI units Dedicated AI silicon differs significantly across vendors. Not directly comparable. 336 Tensor Cores Unknown AI Accelerators
RT units Dedicated RT unit counts do not scale the same way across vendors. 84 RT Cores 64 Ray Accelerators
ROPs 112 128
TMUs 336 256
Clocks
Base / Core clock 2,295 MHz 1,660 MHz
Boost clock 2,617 MHz 2,970 MHz
Memory clock 1,875 MHz 2,518 MHz
Memory
Memory size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256-bit 256-bit
Memory bandwidth 960 GB/s 644.6 GB/s
Bus / Interface
Bus interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
AGP / PCI / PCIe distinction PCIe PCIe
Power
TDP / TBP / board power 360 W 304 W
Recommended PSU 850 W 700 W
Power connectors 1x PCIe Gen 5 16-pin Unknown
Slot width Dual-slot, 304 mm length, 40 mm width Dual-slot
Display / Media
Display outputs 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Features
DirectX support DirectX 12.2 DirectX 12.2
OpenGL support OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan support Vulkan 1.4 Vulkan 1.4
CUDA support 12.0 Not applicable
Shader Model 6.8 6.8
Ray tracing support Hardware RT units present Hardware RT units present
Performance / Benchmarks
FP32 throughput 56.28 TFLOPS 48.66 TFLOPS
FP16 throughput 56.28 TFLOPS 97.32 TFLOPS
Muted cells indicate unavailable, not applicable, or not directly comparable specifications.

Frame rates compare runs of the same game at the same quality preset on one test system. DLAA counts as native resolution, because it applies anti-aliasing at full render resolution rather than upscaling; DLSS and FSR upscaling are never counted as native. Where a capture named ray tracing without a readable on or off value, it is read as on.

Measured game results

Gaming benchmarks

Reviewed FPS from games these cards were measured on under one shared test system and resolution. Every game is compared against itself, so each result is a like-for-like pair. These results are separate from theoretical compute specifications.

4K

GeForce RTX 5080 is 6.7% faster than Radeon RX 9070 XT

  1. GeForce RTX 5080 100 index, fastest
  2. Radeon RX 9070 XT 93.7 index, 6.3% behind fastest

Relative gaming performance, fastest at 100%. Geometric mean across 3 games measured on every card.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, DDR5-6000 MHz RAM

  • GeForce RTX 5080
  • Radeon RX 9070 XT

Game scale: 0 to 100 FPS, shared by every game and GPU at this resolution

  1. Crimson Desert

    Ultra, Not reported

    • GeForce RTX 5080 72 FPS1% low 64 FPS
    • Radeon RX 9070 XT 58 FPS1% low 51 FPS

  2. Cyberpunk 2077

    Ultra, Ray Tracing, Visible Unspecified; Upscaling, DLAA

    • GeForce RTX 5080 39 FPS1% low 32 FPS
    • Radeon RX 9070 XT 48 FPS1% low 39 FPS

  3. The Last of Us Part II Remastered

    Very high, Ray Tracing, Visible Unspecified; Upscaling, DLAA

    • GeForce RTX 5080 82 FPS1% low 74 FPS
    • Radeon RX 9070 XT 68 FPS1% low 61 FPS
Settings, methodology and sources

NVIDIA Club reports reviewed numbers extracted from source video evidence. It does not claim a controlled lab environment. Each game is compared only against itself under one identical condition on every card, so a set may span quality presets while every individual comparison stays exact. A game measured at more than one preset contributes once. Upscaling techniques differ between vendors and are recorded per game rather than treated as a shared setting.

Crimson Desert
Ultra, Not reported
Cyberpunk 2077
Ultra, Ray Tracing, Visible Unspecified; Upscaling, DLAA
The Last of Us Part II Remastered
Very high, Ray Tracing, Visible Unspecified; Upscaling, DLAA
  • RTX 5080 vs RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090 - Test in 12 Games - 4K_2
  • RX 9070 XT vs RTX 4090 - Test in 10 Games with New Drivers 2026 _ 1080p

Advanced provenance

Memory transfer rate
6000 MT/s
RTX 5080 vs RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090 - Test in 12 Games - 4K_2
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RX 9070 XT vs RTX 4090 - Test in 10 Games with New Drivers 2026 _ 1080p
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