NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 304W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2970MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10.07 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+383%
48.66 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
11078
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+174%
30445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
5146
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+184%
14633
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 2080
2171
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+194%
6403
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 20
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1660 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
4096
184
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
128
368
Tensor Cores
128
46
RT Cores
64
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
4 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
304W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Navi 48
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
Turing
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
545 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
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
