Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse vs PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim

AMD

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse

Overall performance index

46,2

Rank 12 of 30 tested cards

Faster

NVIDIA

PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim

Overall performance index

66,9

Rank 3 of 30 tested cards

PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim is 31,0% faster on average

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim

Individual tests: Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse wins 0, PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim wins 39 (39 shared tests)

Performance by resolution

Full HD (1080p) +27,3 % 88,0fps 121,0fps 4K without ray tracing +28,3 % 71,0fps 99,0fps 4K with ray tracing +32,6 % 60,0fps 89,0fps 8K +35,4 % 51,0fps 79,0fps

Game benchmarks

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Avg. Full HD (1080p) – all tested cards

PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim +37,5 %

Individual results (22 tests)

3D Mark Fire Strike Extreme Graphic Score 30.232 Punkte 41.039 Punkte +35,7 %

3D Mark Fire Strike Ultra Graphic Score 15.218 Punkte 21.608 Punkte +42,0 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 15.263 Punkte 22.859 Punkte +49,8 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 70,7 fps 105,8 fps +49,8 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,fps 56,0 fps 89,7 fps +60,2 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,Score 5.602 Punkte 8.973 Punkte +60,2 %

3D Mark Time Spy Extreme Graphic Score 12.396 Punkte 16.312 Punkte +31,6 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 60,0 fps 80,0 fps +33,3 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 20,0 fps 58,0 fps +190,0 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS, 1080p 11.817 Punkte 17.246 Punkte +45,9 %

Fortnite1920x1080 177,9 fps 201,9 fps +13,5 %

Fortnite 1920x1080 P99 278,1 fps 286,1 fps +2,9 %

Fortnite P0.1 56,7 fps 57,7 fps +1,8 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 OpenCL 160.372 Punkte 280.219 Punkte +74,7 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 VULKAN 179.541 Punkte 250.614 Punkte +39,6 %

Metro Exodus P0.1 37,3 fps 58,9 fps +57,9 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark1920x1080, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 111,8 fps –

Synthetische Benchmarks 598,0 Rating 917,0 Rating +53,3 %

Unigine Superposition1080p Extreme 93,6 fps 145,1 fps +55,0 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme min FPS 74,9 fps 115,1 fps +53,7 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme max FPS 112,4 fps 196,5 fps +74,8 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme Punkte 12.518 fps 19.399 fps +55,0 %

Avg. 4K without ray tracing – all tested cards

PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim +39,4 %

Individual results (9 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 56,0 fps 72,0 fps +28,6 %

Cyberpunk 2077Ultra Preset, 3840x2160 53,4 fps 73,1 fps +37,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 Ultra 3840x2160 min 44,7 fps 59,6 fps +33,2 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 3840x2160 max 66,9 fps 92,6 fps +38,4 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS,3840x2160 5.844 Punkte 8.759 Punkte +49,9 %

Metro Exodus Ehanced Edition3840x2160 / Extreme 78,3 fps 122,4 fps +56,3 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark3840x2160, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 54,1 fps –

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 105,0 fps 152,0 fps +44,8 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 16.451 fps 23.813 fps +44,8 %

Avg. 4K with ray tracing – all tested cards

PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim +48,3 %

Individual results (8 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 20,0 fps 53,0 fps +165,0 %

Cyberpunk 2077Low RayTracing Low OHNE DLSS-FSR, 3840x2160 47,4 fps 65,4 fps +37,9 %

Cyberpunk 2077RayTracing Low DLSS / FSR2.1 3840x2160 94,4 fps 113,7 fps +20,5 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 min 84,8 fps 102,5 fps +21,0 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing Low 3840x2160 min 40,1 fps 54,3 fps +35,4 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Low RayTracing Low 3840x2160 max 58,8 fps 80,5 fps +37,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 max 113,4 fps 134,0 fps +18,1 %

Metro Exodus P99. Moscow3840x2160 DXR,Ultra,no DLSS 125,1 fps 222,8 fps +78,1 %

Avg. 8K – all tested cards

PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim +54,9 %

Individual results (2 tests)

Unigine Superposition8k Extreme 50,7 fps 79,3 fps +56,5 %

Unigine Superposition 8k Optimized 6.772 fps 10.601 fps +56,5 %

Price / performance

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Specifications

Key details

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim
Architecture	n/a	Blackwell
Generation	n/a	Blackwell
Type	Desktop GPU	Desktop GPU

Detailed specifications

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim
Shader processors (CUDA / stream)	n/a	10,752
Compute units / SMs	56	n/a
RT cores	56	n/a
Tensor cores	112	n/a
Base clock	2,070 MHz	2,300 MHz
Boost clock	2,520 MHz	2,620 MHz
Power draw (TDP/TGP)	n/a	360 W

VRAM capacity and type

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR7
Memory size	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	n/a	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	640,0 GB/s	n/a

Form factor and compatibility

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	PNY GeForce RTX 5080 Slim
Interface	PCIe® 5.0 x16	PCIe Gen 5

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