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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 64k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 13.

In short

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT has more memory for models: 20 GB against 16 GB. At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 13 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.4× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 costs $2,370 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $2,175 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is $195 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

$2,370

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

$2,175

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 5080Radeon RX 7900 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR720 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit320-bit
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s800 GB/s
FP16 compute113 TFLOPS103 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power360 W315 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload63tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
gpt-oss 20B88tok/sMXFP465tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B42tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B51tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14Boffload23tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B41tok/sQ4_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B41tok/sQ4_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B89tok/sQ8_066tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload24tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 E4B59tok/sQ8_044tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B83tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B39tok/sQ6_K29tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
At 64k context the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT runs 13 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 10; only the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.4× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 costs $2,370 at Amazon and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT $2,175 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is $195 cheaper.

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