NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. All released in 2025. MSRP range: $549 · $999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
*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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 12 | 16 |
| vram type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 250 | 360 |
| cuda cores | 6144 | 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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 41,611 points | 79,045 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 39,871 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 21,262 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 13,939 points | 24,924 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 5,769 points | 9,039 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 4,968 points | 8,938 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 22,221 points | 32,642 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 9,535 points | 16,244 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics | — | 32,701 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,299 pts | 1,407 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 28,758 pts | 35,697 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 812 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.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
- llama2:7b: 127.5 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 127.5 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 101.0 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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