AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 5080
VS
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Navi 31
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080
GB203-400
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB with 6144 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months newer GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB that utilizes 84 pipelines and 10752 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5080
- Performs better (up to 21%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Achieves 33% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (297K vs 224K)
- Has 75% more shading units (10752 vs 6144)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 253 175 156 122 |
250 186 179 138 |
| The Witcher 3 | 280 251 177 96 |
271 244 172 90 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 333 227 166 85 |
317 238 178 87 |
| Far Cry 6 | 212 181 170 109 |
194 171 155 97 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 167 143 113 64 |
185 152 124 67 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 264 251 192 128 |
250 244 197 135 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 168 140 122 77 |
166 142 126 82 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 203 181 126 59 |
213 192 138 61 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 302 274 208 112 |
306 276 214 111 |
| 1080p High | 242 | 239 |
| 1080p Ultra | 203 | 205 |
| 1440p Ultra | 159 | 165 |
| 4K Ultra | 95 | 96 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 30804 | 33000 |
| Solar Bay | 123985 | 161489 |
| Port Royal | 16759 | 23275 |
| Fire Strike | 73279 | 75605 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 58739 | 69617 |
| Night Raid | 183191 | 199650 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 423.9 img/sec | 319.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 270.8 img/sec | 225 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 9.23 Gpixels/sec | 13.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 13.7 Gpixels/sec | 19.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 11.1 Gpixels/sec | 20.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.74 Gpixels/sec | 2.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 871 Gpixels/sec | 1750 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29891.2 FPS | 43676.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1290 | 1397 |
| DirectX 11 | 355 FPS | 327 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 134 FPS | 144 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 17777 Ops/s | 19057 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5080
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-01 (Nowh) | Cinebench 2024 | 95861 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 18608 | 15441 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25385 | 47173 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 45641 | 43223 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 71321 | 92863 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 257258 | 202202 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 5240 | 3701 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7425 | 7905 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 21335 | 20955 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66140 | 69068 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 483867 | 349205 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 5080General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | November 3, 2022 | January 7, 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $999 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 31 | GB203-400 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4080 | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 265K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (6th and 4th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1929 MHz | 2295 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2498 MHz | 2617 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 10752 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 384 | 336 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 84 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 336 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 96 | 84 |
| L1 Cache | 256KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 6MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 480 GPixel/s | 293 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 959 GTexel/s | 879 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 355 W | 360 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 378 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 57 billion | 45.6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 107.75 MTr/mm² | 120.63 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2500 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20000 Mbps | 30000 Mbps |
| Bus | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 2.1b |
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