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 (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 (+9%)

AVG 125 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 103 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+9%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+5%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+36%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+31%)

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+34%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+79%)

AVG 303 FPS

MIN 280 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 157 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+83%)

AVG 249 FPS

MIN 242 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5080 (+111%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 181 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+24%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+36%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5080 (+29%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

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

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+18%)

AVG 187 FPS

MIN 150 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+15%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5080 (+18%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+1%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+9%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (+0%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

GeForce RTX 5080 (+0%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

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

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+17%)

AVG 139 FPS

MIN 124 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+13%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5080 (+14%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 38 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 (+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

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Wins!

Based on 261 benchmarks across 74 games

103

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5080

+16.4%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX