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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080

Radeon RX 9070 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Navi 48
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
GA102

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB with 64 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 4 years and 5 months older GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB that utilizes 68 pipelines and 8704 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
10 GB GDDR6X
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
49.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3080 over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Performs better (up to 38%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 63% higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 29.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 41% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 108 FPS
  • Includes 6 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3080
  • Features 144 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 2.1x more shading units (8704 vs 4096)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9070 XT
vs
RTX 3080

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
170
114
104
80
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
189
165
116
63
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
274
206
149
82
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
145
138
114
72
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
119
98
78
43
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
152
145
110
73
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
109
89
74
44
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
135
117
79
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
210
195
151
82
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 167
1080p Ultra 194 141
1440p Ultra 152 108
4K Ultra 88 64
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 9070 XT +38%
26251
RTX 3080
19042
Time Spy 29556 17664
Solar Bay 122220 85898
Port Royal 18363 11597
Fire Strike 66319 42472
Wild Life Extreme 54672 37900
Night Raid 194947 133004
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 XT +13%
182816
RTX 3080
161903
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 217.3 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 141.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 8.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 11 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 8.43 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 1.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 780.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 FPS 22538.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 9070 XT +286%
50113
RTX 3080
12982

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 XT +8%
26913
RTX 3080
24987
G2D Mark 1310 1062
DirectX 11 295 FPS 207 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 99 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 14058 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 32587 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 XT
3287.07
RTX 3080 +46%
4791.45
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 6897 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd)Cinebench 202450113
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSGeekbench 6 OpenCL179283
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSSteel Nomad Light27505
📘 2025-10-15 (adv)Geekbench 6 OpenCL175418
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GeForce RTX 3080
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-06 (Henry)Cinebench 202450695
Add View all (1)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 9070 XT +63%
39190
RTX 3080
24003
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT +51%
55727
RTX 3080
36895
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +130%
33599
RTX 3080
14629
Image Classification (SP) 18001 9439
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 25471
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 19892
Face Detection (HP) 74776 46956
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 104704
Text Classification (SP) 5163 2712
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 4828
Object Detection (SP) 19602 12153
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 36822
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 246005
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 3080

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 September 1, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $699
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 48 GA102
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti - Radeon RX 6800 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5080
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (12th and 31st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 1440 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 1710 MHz
Shading Units 4096 8704
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 272
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 68
Tensor Cores 128 272
Ray-tracing Cores 64 68
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 5MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 380 GPixel/s 164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 465 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT +63%
48.7 TFLOPS
RTX 3080
29.8 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 304 W 320 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 628 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 28 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 44.59 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 10 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1188 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 19000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 320-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 XT
644.6 GB/s
RTX 3080 +18%
760.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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