AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

amd

Brand

20GB GDDR6

Memory

5376

Cores

800 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 7900 XT

$580.61 Nov 2022 View Details

$580.61

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR7

Memory

10752

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5080

$999.99 Jan 2025 View Details

$999.99

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

20GB GDDR6 300W $580.61 Nov 2022

Radeon RX 7900 XT

$899 • Nov 2022

GeForce RTX 5080

$999 • Jan 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16GB GDDR7 360W $999.99 Jan 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Memory Size	20 GB	16 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR7
TDP	300 W	360 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2394 MHz	2617 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	800 GB/s	960 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	5nm
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	5376	10752
RT Cores	84	84
TMUs	336	336
ROPs	192	112
Memory Bus	320-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2500 MHz	1875 MHz
Pixel Rate	459.6 GPixel/s	293.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	800 GTexel/s	879.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	51.48 GFLOPS	56.28 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	6.00 MB	64.00 MB
Die Size	529 mm²	378 mm²
Transistors	57700 Million	45600 Million
Required PSU	700 W	750 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

24671

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

36148 (+47%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

203754

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

297747 (+46%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

323.2 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

410.9 FPS (+27%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

28872

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

36508 (+26%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (261 benchmarks)

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Background

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+24%)

AVG 125 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 101 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+25%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+29%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+56%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+52%)

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+63%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+105%)

AVG 303 FPS

MIN 280 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 148 FPS

MIN 138 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+111%)

AVG 249 FPS

MIN 242 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 118 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+159%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 181 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+42%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+57%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+57%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

8.7 2026 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+35%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 150 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 139 FPS

MIN 111 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+32%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+45%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+13%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+6%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+22%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

7.8 2026 • Action, RPG • Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+34%)

AVG 139 FPS

MIN 124 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+31%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+40%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

Winner

Loser

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+38%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+39%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+49%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Wins!

Based on 261 benchmarks across 74 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

+33.8%

103

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080