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ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC against Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White 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

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCleft

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

Coding & development

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCleft

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

Light gaming

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCleft

82 vs 77 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCleft

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

Heavy gaming

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCleft

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

Content creation

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

3D & rendering

ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCleft

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

Gaming & streaming

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

AI & local models

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67 vs 54 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 ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 77

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 67

    10 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1080p

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 82

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 77

    5 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1440p

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 77

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 70

    7 ptsto the left

  • Games at 4K

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 70

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 59

    11 ptsto the left

  • Rendering and video

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 74

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 50

    24 ptsto the left

Price and value

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

  • Value, points per $100

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 3.6

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 6.3

    75%to the right

  • Typical price

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: $2,150

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: $1,071

    $1,079to the right

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 16 GB

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 16 GB

    level

  • Board power

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 360 W

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 304 W

    18%to the right

  • Length

    ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC: 358 mm

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB: 330 mm

    8%to the right

The verdict

  • The ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC is 10% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 19% in the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OC's favour.
  • The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB typically costs $1,079 less.
  • Per dollar, the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB is the better buy: 6.3 points per $100 against 3.6.

Specifications

SpecASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 16GB White OCSapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB
Video memory16 GB16 GB
Board power360 W304 W (better)
Length358 mm330 mm (better)
Power connector12V-2x6 (16-pin)PCIe 8-pin
BrandNvidiaAMD
Released20252025
Typical price$2,150$1,071 (better)

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

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