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Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 5080

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

  • Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • GeForce RTX 5080

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

  1. Crimson Desert

    Ultra, Not reported

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

  2. Cyberpunk 2077

    Ultra, Ray Tracing, Visible Unspecified; Upscaling, DLAA

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

  3. The Last of Us Part II Remastered

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

    • Radeon RX 9070 XT 68 FPS1% low 61 FPS
    • GeForce RTX 5080 82 FPS1% low 74 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
  • RX 9070 XT vs RTX 4090 - Test in 10 Games with New Drivers 2026 _ 1080p
  • RTX 5080 vs RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090 - Test in 12 Games - 4K_2

Advanced provenance

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