NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 2295 MHz vs 1855 MHz
  • Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 2617 MHz vs 2499 MHz
  • Around 75% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 6144
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1401 vs 1255
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 36147 vs 31122
  • Around 39% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 263511 vs 189258
  • Around 26% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8637 vs 6841
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 Jan 2025 vs 3 Nov 2022
Core clock speed 2295 MHz vs 1855 MHz
Boost clock speed 2617 MHz vs 2499 MHz
Pipelines 10752 vs 6144
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1401 vs 1255
PassMark - G3D Mark 36147 vs 31122
Geekbench - OpenCL 263511 vs 189258
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8637 vs 6841

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

  • Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 959.6 GTexel/s vs 879.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 1% lower typical power consumption: 355 Watt vs 360 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1875 MHz, 30 Gbps effective
Texture fill rate 959.6 GTexel/s vs 879.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 355 Watt vs 360 Watt
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 16 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1875 MHz, 30 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1401
1255
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
36147
31122
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
263511
189258
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8637
6841
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
PassMark - G2D Mark 1401 1255
PassMark - G3D Mark 36147 31122
Geekbench - OpenCL 263511 189258
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8637 6841
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 492.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 14101.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 65.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 461.69
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2659.85

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Essentials

Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.0
Code name GB203 Navi 31
Launch date 30 Jan 2025 3 Nov 2022
Place in performance rating 6 9

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2617 MHz 2499 MHz
Core clock speed 2295 MHz 1855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 5 nm
Pipelines 10752 6144
Pixel fill rate 293.1 GPixel/s 479.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 879.3 GTexel/s 959.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 360 Watt 355 Watt
Transistor count 45600 million 57700 million
Compute units 96
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 3.838 TFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 122.8 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 61.42 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches 51 mm, 2 inches
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 304 mm, 12 inches 287 mm, 11.3 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 Watt 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 137 mm, 5.4 inches 135 mm, 5.3 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.8 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 960.0 GB/s 960.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1875 MHz, 30 Gbps effective 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6