Radeon RX 9070 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Compare the Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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 Radeon RX 9070 is the better buy here: it's both faster at 1440p and gives more performance per dollar.

  • Radeon RX 9070 is about 98% faster at 1440p (gaming index 61 vs 31).
  • Radeon RX 9070 is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 3%.
  • Radeon RX 9070 delivers about 104% more frames per dollar at 1440p.
  • Radeon RX 9070 carries more VRAM (16GB vs 11GB), an edge at 4K and in memory-heavy games.
  • Radeon RX 9070 draws less power (220W vs 250W), 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.

1440p gaming
Radeon RX 907061
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti31

Radeon RX 9070 is about 98% faster at 1440p.

Performance per dollar

1440p gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

Radeon RX 9070

9.7

per $100 spent

Better value

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

4.7

per $100 spent

Specs head-to-head

Radeon RX 9070
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Price (from)
$629.99
$649.96
1440p gaming index
61
31
VRAM
16GB GDDR6
11GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
616 GB/s
Boost clock
2520 MHz
1545 MHz
Shader cores
3,584
4,352
Ray tracing cores
56
68
Tensor / AI cores
112
544
TDP
220W
250W
Recommended PSU
650W
650W
Upscaling
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction
Architecture
RDNA 4 Navi 48
Turing TU102
Process node
TSMC N4P
TSMC 12N
MSRP
$550.00
$999.00

Productivity & compute

Radeon RX 9070
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
6,276
3,502
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
147,790
128,232
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
25,385
21,429
Render-Blender (samples/min)
2,920
3,059

Where to buy

Radeon RX 9070from $629.99
From$629.99
14 versions in stock
GeForce RTX 2080 Tifrom $649.96
From$649.96
3 versions in stock

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