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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 64k context the first runs 27 models fully in memory, the second 10.

In short

The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 has more memory for models: 32 GB against 16 GB. At 64k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 27 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 10; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.7× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models). In the US the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs $1,700 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 $1,600 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is $100 cheaper.

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

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

$1,700

Amazon

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

$1,600

eBay

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
GPURadeon AI PRO R9700GeForce RTX 5080
Memory32 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR7
Memory bus256-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth640 GB/s960 GB/s
FP16 compute191 TFLOPS113 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmCUDA
Board power300 W360 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
Qwen 3.8 27B13tok/sUD-Q6_Koffload
Qwen 3.6 27B13tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 31B11tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B55tok/sUD-Q6_Koffload
Qwen 3.5 27B13tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4B37tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B55tok/sQ6_Koffload
GLM 4.7 Flash28tok/sQ6_Koffload
Devstral Small 2 24B12tok/sQ6_Koffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B88tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
gpt-oss 20B52tok/sMXFP488tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B24tok/sQ6_Koffload
Gemma 4 12B25tok/sQ8_042tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B30tok/sQ8_051tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B13tok/sQ6_Koffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24B12tok/sQ6_Koffload
Ministral 3 14B14tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen3 14B13tok/sQ8_0offload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B19tok/sQ8_041tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 8B19tok/sQ8_041tok/sQ4_K_M
Phi-4 14B12tok/sQ8_0offload
Qwen 3.5 4B53tok/sQ8_089tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B19tok/sQ8_039tok/sQ5_K_M
Granite 4.2 8B18tok/sQ8_0offload
Gemma 4 E4B35tok/sQ8_059tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B49tok/sQ8_083tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B23tok/sQ6_K39tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Boffloadwon't run
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airoffloadwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadwon't run
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
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
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080?
Choose the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080?
At 64k context the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 runs 27 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 10; only the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is about 1.7× as fast as the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080?
In the US the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 costs $1,700 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 $1,600 at eBay: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is $100 cheaper.

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