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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 32k context the first runs 32 models fully in memory, the second 31.

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 32k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 runs 32 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 31; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

1.500 €

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

789 €

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPUGeForce RTX 5080Radeon RX 9070 XT
Memory16 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s640 GB/s
FP16 compute113 TFLOPS195 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDAROCm
Board power360 W304 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
gpt-oss 20B110tok/sMXFP465tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B44tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B56tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B41tok/sQ4_K_M25tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14B40tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B44tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B44tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B106tok/sQ8_063tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B44tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B41tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B65tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B134tok/sQ8_079tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B55tok/sQ6_K32tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B637tok/sQ8_0377tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B483tok/sQ8_0285tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B321tok/sQ5_K_M190tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B210tok/sQ8_0124tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B146tok/sQ8_086tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B122tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B122tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506121tok/sQ4_K_M72tok/sQ4_K_M
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking113tok/sQ8_067tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B101tok/smlx-6bit60tok/smlx-6bit
granite vision 4.1 4b94tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b91tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041462tok/smlx-5bit37tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B60tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash53tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B46tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking45tok/smlx-8bit27tok/smlx-8bit
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251244tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B39tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
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
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
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
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon'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 32k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 runs 32 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 31; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 holds DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.
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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