Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. All released in 2025. MSRP range: $349 · $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 | Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 16 | 16 |
| vram type | — | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 160 | 360 |
| cuda cores | — | 10752 |
| process nm | 4 | — |
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 9060 XT 16GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 38,923 points | 79,045 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | 18,501 points | 39,871 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | 9,436 points | 21,262 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 9,751 points | 24,924 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 3,004 points | 9,039 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 3,806 points | 8,938 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 16,333 points | 32,642 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 7,384 points | 16,244 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics | — | 32,701 points |
| Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 102,750 points | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,177 pts | 1,407 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 20,122 pts | 35,697 pts |
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 9060 XT 16GB
- deepseekr1:8b: 845.0 tok/s
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s
- qwen3:30b: 100.0 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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