Radeon RX 9070 XT vs RX 8800 XT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated27
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data60.49
Power efficiencyno data15.71
ArchitectureRDNA 4.0 (2025)RDNA 4.0 (2025)
GPU code nameNavi 48Navi 48
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data6 March 2025 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40964096
Core clock speed1295 MHz1660 MHz
Boost clock speed2430 MHz2970 MHz
Number of transistorsno data53,900 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)220 Watt304 Watt
Texture fill rate622.1760.3
Floating-point processing power19.91 TFLOPS48.66 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs256256
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Cores6464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2438 MHz2518 MHz
Memory bandwidth624.1 GB/s644.6 GB/s
Resizable BAR++

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.11x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a
HDMI++

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.22.2
Vulkan1.31.3
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 304 Watt

RX 8800 XT has a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 38.2% lower power consumption.

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