NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1119.20
$ 609.69
$ 509.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

24070 points
70% significantly better overall score
14149 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

559 FPS
268 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
291 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

276 FPS
60 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
217 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

406 FPS
128 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
278 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

225 FPS
91 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
134 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8762 points
39% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6282 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9133.30 points
232% significantly higher Blender score
2743.15 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

267906 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
135343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

257198 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
167848 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2617 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed
2520 MHz

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
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

960 GB/s
49% significantly higher memory bandwidth
640 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

293.1 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
10% slightly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

56.28 TFLOPS
55% significantly better floating point performance
36.1 TFLOPS

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
128
14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

4th of 586
23rd 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 9070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 9070 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 is better than the Radeon RX 9070.

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