GeForce RTX 4080 Super vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare the GeForce RTX 4080 Super and Radeon RX 7900 XTX on real gaming benchmarks, full specifications, live retailer prices and performance-per-dollar, then jump straight to the cheapest in-stock version of either card.

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The short answer

The GeForce RTX 4080 Super and Radeon RX 7900 XTX are closely matched. The decision comes down to price, VRAM and features.

  • Gaming performance is effectively a wash at 4K (index 62 vs 61).
  • Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 6%.
  • Radeon RX 7900 XTX delivers about 4% more frames per dollar at 4K.
  • Radeon RX 7900 XTX carries more VRAM (24GB vs 16GB), an edge at 4K and in memory-heavy games.
  • GeForce RTX 4080 Super draws less power (320W vs 355W), so it runs cooler and asks less of your PSU.

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Switch resolution with the toggle above.

4K gaming
GeForce RTX 4080 Super62
Radeon RX 7900 XTX61

The two are effectively tied at 4K.

Performance per dollar

4K gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

GeForce RTX 4080 Super

4.2

per $100 spent

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

4.3

per $100 spent

Better value

Specs head-to-head

GeForce RTX 4080 Super
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Price (from)
$1,479.99
$1,399.99
4K gaming index
62
61
VRAM
16GB GDDR6X
24GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
736 GB/s
960 GB/s
Boost clock
2550 MHz
2500 MHz
Shader cores
10,240
6,144
Ray tracing cores
80
96
Tensor / AI cores
320
192
TDP
320W
355W
Recommended PSU
750W
800W
Upscaling
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
Architecture
Ada Lovelace AD103
RDNA 3 Navi 31
Process node
TSMC 4N
TSMC N5/N6
MSRP
$999.00
$999.00

Productivity & compute

GeForce RTX 4080 Super
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (points)
59,075
66,743
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
6,624
6,862
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
217,140
209,223
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
34,232
31,438
Render-Blender (samples/min)
8,426
4,055

Where to buy

Radeon RX 7900 XTXfrom $1,399.99
From$1,399.99
3 versions in stock
GeForce RTX 4080 Superfrom $1,479.99
From$1,479.99
10 versions in stock

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