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

$1,319.99

$999.99

amd

Brand

24GB GDDR6

Memory

6144

Cores

960 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

$799.99 Nov 2022 View Details

$799.99

$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 (240 benchmarks)

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 (+21%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+22%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+21%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Winner

Loser

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+6%)

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 120 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+6%)

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+11%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories Background

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories

8 2025 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Bordeaux

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5080 (+10%)

AVG 160 FPS

MIN 138 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 145 FPS

MIN 125 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5080 (+12%)

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5080 (+14%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

Winner

Loser

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy Background

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy

8.5 2025 • Action, Strategy • Relic Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+41%)

AVG 276 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 196 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+28%)

AVG 217 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5080 (+18%)

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 101 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Of Ash and Steel

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Fire & Frost

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+38%)

AVG 260 FPS

MIN 217 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 189 FPS

MIN 166 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+44%)

AVG 225 FPS

MIN 188 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 156 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+42%)

AVG 145 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 102 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG, Free To Play • Everstone Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+19%)

AVG 184 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 154 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+13%)

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+12%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Wins!

Based on 240 benchmarks across 69 games

102

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

+15.2%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX