XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE is based on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE and has 5120 texture shaders and 80 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, which has 10752 shaders and 84 execution units.
XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Navi 31 GPU Chip GB203-400-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Blackwell
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 84
5120 Shader 10752
192 Render Output Units 128
320 Texture Units 336
80 Raytracing Cores 84

Memory

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 576 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition can access 16 GB GDDR7 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 960 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 30.0 Gbps
576 GB/s Memory bandwidth 960 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE clocks in the base with up to 1.705 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is 2.295 GHz.

1.705 GHz Base Clock 2.295 GHz
2.395 GHz Boost Clock 2.617 GHz
2.05 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE is 260 W (Reference). The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition has a TDP of 360 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

260 W (Reference) TDP 360 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
1 x 90 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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 XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE is 335 mm long, 130 mm high and 52 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is 304 mm long, 137 mm high and 48 mm wide.

335 mm Length 304 mm
130 mm Height 137 mm
52 mm Width 48 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
No SFF-Ready Yes

Additional data

The XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE was released in Q1/2024 at a price of 799 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition was introduced in Q1/2025 at a price of 1,169 $ (Reference).

RX-79GMERCBR / RX-79GMERCB9 Part-no --
Q1/2024 Release date Q1/2025
799 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,169 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 5 nm
-- 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)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
43 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
94 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
139 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
43 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
87 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
122 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
172665

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE
16 GB GDDR6
170121

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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