NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
vs
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition has 10752 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.62 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 56.28 TFLOPS.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.97 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 48.66 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Blackwell architecture, which has 84 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is based on the RDNA 4 architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPU AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Based on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GB203-400-A1 GPU Chip Navi 48 XTX
Blackwell Architecture RDNA 4
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
10752 Shader 4096
128 Render Output Units 128
336 Texture Units 256
84 Raytracing Cores 64

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR7 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.875 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.518GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR7 Memory Type GDDR6
1.875 GHz Memory Clock 2.518 GHz
30.0 Gbps Memory Speed 20.1 Gbps
960 GB/s Memory bandwidth 645 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition has a turbo clock of 2.617 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is 2.970 GHz.

2.295 GHz Base Clock 1.660 GHz
2.617 GHz Boost Clock 2.970 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.40 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition has 1 x 16-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 88 °C.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 92 °C.

360 W TDP 304 W (Reference)
-- TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 92 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 110 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
3x DP v2.1b DP Ports 3x DP v2.1a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Non addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is 48 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is 48 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

304 mm Length --
137 mm Height --
48 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 5 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
Yes SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition was released in Q1/2025.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT published in Q2/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 4 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q1/2025 Release date Q2/2025
1,169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 599 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 4 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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