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ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC against MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC leads on the overall index. The price beside each button is the Amazon US reading where ScoutPrices has one; the comparison below is worked on typical prices.

Which one for what

Office & everyday

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

69 vs 80 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

60 vs 76 for cores for builds and containers, plenty of memory, fast storage, and a card for several screens or a local model.

Light gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

77 vs 82 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

70 vs 77 for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Heavy gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

59 vs 70 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

58 vs 75 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

56 vs 75 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

64 vs 76 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCright

54 vs 67 for video memory first, then card speed, then system memory.

Head to head

Scores

Indices out of 100 on ScoutSpecs' own scale, one per kind of work. They are not frames per second and not a measurement of any one sample.

  • Spec score

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 67

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 77

    10 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1080p

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 77

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 82

    5 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1440p

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 70

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 77

    7 ptsto the right

  • Games at 4K

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 59

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 70

    11 ptsto the right

  • Rendering and video

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 50

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 74

    24 ptsto the right

Price and value

Worked on typical prices, the figures the comparison is built on.

  • Value, points per $100

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 8.4

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 4.7

    79%to the left

  • Typical price

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: $800

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: $1,650

    $850to the left

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 16 GB

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 16 GB

    level

  • Board power

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 304 W

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 360 W

    18%to the left

  • Length

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC: 305 mm

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 360 mm

    18%to the left

The verdict

  • The MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC is 10% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 19% in the MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC's favour.
  • The ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC typically costs $850 less.
  • Per dollar, the ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OC is the better buy: 8.4 points per $100 against 4.7.

Specifications

SpecASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB White OCMSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC
Video memory16 GB16 GB
Board power304 W (better)360 W
Length305 mm (better)360 mm
Power connectorPCIe 8-pin12V-2x6 (16-pin)
BrandAMDNvidia
Released20252025
Typical price$800 (better)$1,650

The better figure of each pair is in green, with a tick.

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