AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 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

$ 863.63
$ 255.57 slightly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

24876 points
5% slightly better overall score
23671 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

529 FPS
548 FPS
20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

350 FPS
73 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
277 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

477 FPS
74 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
404 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

207 FPS
225 FPS
18 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6837 points
8762 points
28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4050.95 points
9133.30 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

212685 points
267906 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

238996 points
257198 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1855 MHz
2295 MHz
23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2500 MHz
2617 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB
49% significantly more memory
16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

960 GB/s
Identical
960 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

355 W
1% slightly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

480 Gigapixels/s
63% significantly higher pixel rate
293.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

960 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate
879.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

61.42 TFLOPS
9% slightly better floating point performance
56.28 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144
10752
75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

384
14% slightly more texture mapping units
336

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192
71% significantly more render output processors
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

3rd of 597
4th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 5080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX beats the GeForce RTX 5080 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a slightly lower TDP at 355 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is better than the GeForce RTX 5080.

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