Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. All released in 2025. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
AMD · RDNA 4
16 GB VRAM304W TDP2025
Full Radeon RX 9070 XT benchmarks →
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NVIDIA · Blackwell
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
16 GB VRAM360W TDP$999 MSRP2025
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 benchmarks →
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Radeon RX 9070 XT | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 16 | 16 |
| vram type | GDDR6 | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 304 | 360 |
| cuda cores | — | 10752 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | Radeon RX 9070 XT | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 66,762 pts | 79,045 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | 33,887 pts | 39,871 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 21,262 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 17,816 points | 24,924 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 6,191 points | 9,039 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 6,856 points | 8,938 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 29,217 points | 32,642 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 14,078 points | 16,244 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics | — | 32,701 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,318 pts | 1,407 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 26,908 pts | 35,697 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 719 rank | 1 rank |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
Radeon RX 9070 XT
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1.5B: 163.0 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 142.9 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
- llama2:7b: 182.0 tok/s
- gpt-oss:20b: 140.5 tok/s
- llama3.1:8b: 132.0 tok/s
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