GeForce RTX 4080 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 644.6GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 19% (2970MHz vs 2505MHz)
Lower TDP (304W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
48740
Radeon RX 9070 XT
48660
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4080
28173
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+8%
30445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4080
14002
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+4%
14633
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4080
+13%
7254
Radeon RX 9070 XT
6403
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 40
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
1660 MHz
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
76
SM Count
-
9728
Shading Units
4096
304
TMUs
256
112
ROPs
128
304
Tensor Cores
128
76
RT Cores
64
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
64 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
304W
700 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
Navi 48
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
379 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
