AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT and 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 92% (2970MHz vs 1545MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 11GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 616.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 304W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+261%
48.66 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
13.45 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+108%
30445
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
14622
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+109%
14633
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
7001
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+110%
6403
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
3042
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Sep 2018
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1660 MHz
Base Clock
1350 MHz
2970 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
11GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
352bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
616.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
68
4096
Shading Units
4352
256
TMUs
272
128
ROPs
88
128
Tensor Cores
544
64
RT Cores
68
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
0 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
380.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
136.0 GPixel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.2 GTexel/s
97.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.90 TFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.45 TFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
420.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
304W
TDP
250W
700 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
TU102
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
GPU Variant
TU102-300A-K1-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
12 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
18.6 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
754 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
