Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 4080

Compare the Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 4080 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 XT is the better value, though the GeForce RTX 4080 is the faster card at 1440p.

  • Gaming performance is effectively a wash at 1440p (index 69 vs 69).
  • Radeon RX 9070 XT is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 101%.
  • Radeon RX 9070 XT delivers about 101% more frames per dollar at 1440p.
  • Radeon RX 9070 XT draws less power (304W vs 320W), 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 9070 XT69
GeForce RTX 408069

The two are effectively tied 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 XT

9.5

per $100 spent

Better value

GeForce RTX 4080

4.7

per $100 spent

Specs head-to-head

Radeon RX 9070 XT
GeForce RTX 4080
Price (from)
$719.99
$1,449.00
1440p gaming index
69
69
VRAM
16GB GDDR6
16GB GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
717 GB/s
Boost clock
2970 MHz
2505 MHz
Shader cores
4,096
9,728
Ray tracing cores
64
76
Tensor / AI cores
128
304
TDP
304W
320W
Recommended PSU
750W
750W
Upscaling
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation
Architecture
RDNA 4 Navi 48
Ada Lovelace AD103
Process node
TSMC N4P
TSMC 4N
MSRP
$600.00
$1,199.00

Productivity & compute

Radeon RX 9070 XT
GeForce RTX 4080
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (points)
62,189
58,893
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
7,238
6,595
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
173,157
218,680
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
26,923
34,448
Render-Blender (samples/min)
3,357
8,733

Where to buy

Radeon RX 9070 XTfrom $719.99
From$719.99
24 versions in stock
GeForce RTX 4080from $1,449.00
From$1,449.00
7 versions in stock

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