NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 VS AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR7

Memory

10752

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5080

$999.99 Jan 2025 View Details

$999.99

amd

Brand

24GB GDDR6

Memory

6144

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

$799.99 Nov 2022 View Details

$890.60

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16GB GDDR7 360W $999.99 Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 5080

$999 • Jan 2025

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

$999 • Nov 2022

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

24GB GDDR6 355W $799.99 Nov 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Memory Size	16 GB	24 GB
Memory Type	GDDR7	GDDR6
TDP	360 W	355 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2617 MHz	2498 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	960 GB/s	960 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	5nm
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0	RDNA 3.0
Shading Units	10752	6144
RT Cores	84	96
TMUs	336	384
ROPs	112	192
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	1875 MHz	2500 MHz
Pixel Rate	293.1 GPixel/s	479.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	879.3 GTexel/s	960 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	56.28 GFLOPS	61.39 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	64.00 MB	6.00 MB
Die Size	378 mm²	529 mm²
Transistors	45600 Million	57700 Million
Required PSU	750 W	750 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.4	1.3
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

36148 (+21%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

29863

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

297747 (+33%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

224686

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

410.9 FPS (+1%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

405.4 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

36508 (+17%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

31100

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Game Benchmarks Comparison (294 benchmarks)

Gears of War: E-Day Beta

7 2026 • Action, Adventure • The Coalition

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+53%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+52%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+45%)

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

Winner

Loser

Beast of Reincarnation

7.6 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • GAME FREAK inc.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+1%)

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 144 FPS

MIN 129 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+4%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 98 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+8%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

Winner

Loser

Halo: Campaign Evolved

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • Halo Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+13%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 104 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+14%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+12%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Background

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Barcelona, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft India, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Philippines, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Shanghai

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+14%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+17%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+10%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4.5 quality

GeForce RTX 5080 (+22%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4.5 quality

GeForce RTX 5080 (+30%)

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4.5 quality

GeForce RTX 5080 (+24%)

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

Winner

Loser

007 First Light

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • IO Interactive A/S

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+1%)

AVG 131 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+4%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+0%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+0%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| dlss 4.5 quality

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+22%)

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 147 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| dlss 4.5 quality

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+36%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 120 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| dlss 4.5 quality

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+25%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Winner

Loser

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Background

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

7.8 2026 • Action, Adventure • TT Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+32%)

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 107 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 103 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+28%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+28%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Wins!

Based on 294 benchmarks across 81 games

101

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

+16.5%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX