AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
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

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
237
162
142
109
189
134
125
96
The Witcher 3
255
226
166
88
206
183
130
71
Counter-Strike 2
323
219
160
81
288
210
158
83
Far Cry 6
200
177
155
100
158
146
128
79
Hogwarts Legacy
152
128
104
56
134
109
86
50
COD Modern Warfare 3
240
225
172
114
176
167
128
85
Ghost of Tsushima
156
129
112
71
121
101
85
51
Cyberpunk 2077
185
160
110
51
153
137
95
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
279
260
195
106
252
236
180
98
Avg FPS
1080p High225186
1080p Ultra187158
1440p Ultra146124
4K Ultra8673
DeviationLowMedium

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
26147
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
22374
Time Spy3026821794
Solar Bay11900792888
Port Royal1871514027
Fire Strike6605146885
Night Raid199232175963
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
182816
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
190326
Background Blur427.4 frames/s194.4 frames/s
Face Detection251 frames/s165.6 frames/s
Horizon Detection6.77 Gpix/sec8.61 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection9.42 Gpix/sec12.2 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur9.35 Gpix/sec11.5 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.42 Gpix/sec1.7 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching651.4 Gpix/sec1060 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics23630 fps27590.4 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
27224
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
28502
G2D Mark13471139
DirectX 11294 fps254 fps
DirectX 1280 fps116 fps
GPU Compute15847 Ops/s12703 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
298.6 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
n/a
Aztec Ruins (Normal)1653.8 fpsn/a
Car Chase1403.1 fpsn/a
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)1113.5 fpsn/a
T-Rex4704.1 fpsn/a
ALU 28678.1 fpsn/a
Driver Overhead 2313.1 fpsn/a
APIOpenGLn/a
OSWindowsn/a
Tessellation6928.5n/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
25636
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
42495
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
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

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
6817.09

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced January, 7, 2025 January, 7, 2025
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Blackwell 2.0
Codename Navi 48 GB203-400
Price 599 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1660 MHz 975 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2970 MHz 1500-2410 MHz
Shader Units 4096 7680
TMUs 256 240
ROPs 128 96
Execution Units 64 60
Ray Tracing Cores 64 60
Tensor Cores 128 240
L1 cache 128 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 4000 KB/core 64 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 380 Gpix/sec 144-231 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTex/s 360-578 GTex/s
FLOPS 48.7 TFLOPS 23-37 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 304 W 80-175 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 4 nm
Transistor Size 357 mm² 378 mm²
Transistor count 53.9 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor density 150.98 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Frequency 2518 MHz 1750 MHz
Bus 256 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 20100 MB/s 28000 MB/s
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
644.6 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 2.1a 2.1b
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4

Results

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