NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 128k context the first runs 20 models fully in memory, the second 19.
In short
Both have 16 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 has 960 GB/s of bandwidth and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 640 GB/s. At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 runs 20 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 19; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 holds gpt-oss 20B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.7× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (estimated, median across models). In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 costs 1.500 € at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 789 € at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is 711 € cheaper.
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 5080 | Radeon RX 9070 XT |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR7 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 640 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 113 TFLOPS | 195 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | ROCm |
| Board power | 360 W | 304 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 5 | Gen 5 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss 20B | 64tok/sQ4_K_M | offload |
| Gemma 4 12B | 49tok/sQ6_K | 29tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 43tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 67tok/sQ8_0 | 40tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 50tok/sQ8_0 | 29tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 49tok/sUD-Q6_K | 29tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 278tok/sQ8_0 | 164tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 244tok/sQ8_0 | 144tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 194tok/sQ5_K_M | 115tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 105tok/sQ8_0 | 62tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 78tok/sQ8_0 | 49tok/sQ6_K |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 72tok/sQ8_0 | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | 60tok/sQ4_K_M | 35tok/sQ4_K_M |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 55tok/sQ8_0 | 32tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 55tok/sQ8_0 | 32tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 52tok/sQ4_K_M | 31tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | 44tok/smlx-5bit | 26tok/smlx-5bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 43tok/sQ6_K | 26tok/sQ6_K |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 42tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 41tok/sQ8_0 | 24tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | offload |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | won't run | won't run |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.7 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.1 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.2 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi Dev 72B | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.1 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M3 | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | won't run | won't run |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
- Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT to spend less.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
- At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 runs 20 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 19; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 holds gpt-oss 20B.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.7× as fast as the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (estimated, median across models).
- What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
- In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 costs 1.500 € at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 789 € at eBay: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is 711 € cheaper.
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