Home GPU comparison AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop - Which is better?

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

79 out 100
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
VS
60 out 100
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

  1. Differences
  2. Review
  3. General
  4. Benchmarks
  5. Processor
  6. Memory
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Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison
Processors:
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
vs
GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
253
180
159
120
189
134
125
96
The Witcher 3
270
255
184
93
206
183
130
71
Counter-Strike 2
324
232
169
87
288
210
158
83
Far Cry 6
209
187
168
106
158
146
128
79
Hogwarts Legacy
171
143
110
63
134
109
86
50
COD Modern Warfare 3
256
254
188
132
176
167
128
85
Ghost of Tsushima
170
142
124
79
121
101
85
51
Cyberpunk 2077
206
180
126
59
153
137
95
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
293
275
207
113
252
236
180
98
Avg FPS
1080p High239186
1080p Ultra205158
1440p Ultra159124
4K Ultra9573
DeviationLowMedium

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
29862
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
22374
Time Spy3061021794
Solar Bay12191592888
Port Royal1660714027
Fire Strike7301446885
Night Raid182333175963
Sources: 3DMark [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop]
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
224686
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
190326
Background Blur423.9 frames/s194.4 frames/s
Face Detection270.8 frames/s165.6 frames/s
Horizon Detection9.23 Gpix/sec8.61 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection13.7 Gpix/sec12.2 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur11.1 Gpix/sec11.5 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.74 Gpix/sec1.7 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching871 Gpix/sec1060 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics29891.2 fps27590.4 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
Sources: GeekBench v6 [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop]
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
31104
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
28502
G2D Mark12521139
DirectX 11357 fps254 fps
DirectX 12128 fps116 fps
GPU Compute18188 Ops/s12703 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop]
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
405.4 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
n/a
Aztec Ruins (Normal)1822 fpsn/a
Car Chase1721.5 fpsn/a
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)1382 fpsn/a
T-Rex5784.5 fpsn/a
ALU 210100.5 fpsn/a
Driver Overhead 2326.5 fpsn/a
APIOpenGLn/a
OSWindowsn/a
Tessellation8087.1n/a
Sources: GFXBench 5 [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX]
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
25636
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
42495
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
19809
Image Classification (SP)n/a10192
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a23343
Horizon Detectionn/a31132
Face Detection (HP)n/a46322
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a134037
Text Classification (SP)n/a3319
Machine Translation (HP)n/a4696
Object Detection (SP)n/a13038
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a52089
Style Transfer (SP)n/a248270
Frameworkn/aONNX
Backendn/aDirectML
Sources: GeekBench v6 [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop]

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
6817.09

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced November, 3, 2022 January, 7, 2025
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Blackwell 2.0
Codename Navi 31 GB203-400
Price 999 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1929 MHz 975 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2498 MHz 1500-2410 MHz
Shader Units 6144 7680
TMUs 384 240
ROPs 192 96
Execution Units n/a 60
Ray Tracing Cores 96 60
Tensor Cores n/a 240
L1 cache 256 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 6000 KB/core 64 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 480 Gpix/sec 144-231 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 959 GTex/s 360-578 GTex/s
FLOPS 61.4 TFLOPS 23-37 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 355 W 80-175 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor Size 529 mm² 378 mm²
Transistor count 57 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor density 107.75 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Frequency 2500 MHz 1750 MHz
Bus 384 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 20000 MB/s 28000 MB/s
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
960 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
896 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 10.1
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1b
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX the clear winner in this comparison.

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