NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1119.20
$ 269.99
$ 849.21 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

24070 points
118% significantly better overall score
10996 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

559 FPS
334 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
225 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

276 FPS
113 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
163 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

406 FPS
201 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
205 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

225 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
90 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8762 points
135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3719 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9133.30 points
476% significantly higher Blender score
1584.42 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

267906 points
197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
90142 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

257198 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
115648 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2617 MHz
3130 MHz
19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
Identical
16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

960 GB/s
200% significantly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

293.1 Gigapixels/s
46% significantly higher pixel rate
200.3 Gigapixels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

56.28 TFLOPS
119% significantly better floating point performance
25.6 TFLOPS

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336
162% significantly more texture mapping units
128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
75% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

4th of 586
35th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 5080 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the Radeon RX 9060 XT in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 is better than the Radeon RX 9060 XT.

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