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MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC against PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB

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 OCleft

80 vs 69 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 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

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

82 vs 77 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

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

Heavy gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

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

Content creation

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

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

3D & rendering

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

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

Gaming & streaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

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

AI & local models

MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCleft

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

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 77

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 67

    10 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1080p

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 82

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 77

    5 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1440p

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 77

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 70

    7 ptsto the left

  • Games at 4K

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 70

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 59

    11 ptsto the left

  • Rendering and video

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 74

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 50

    24 ptsto the left

Price and value

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

  • Value, points per $100

    MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OC: 4.7

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 8.8

    87%to the right

  • Typical price

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

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: $760

    $890to the right

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

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

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 16 GB

    level

  • Board power

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

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 304 W

    18%to the right

  • Length

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

    PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: 330 mm

    9%to the right

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 PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB typically costs $890 less.
  • Per dollar, the PowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB is the better buy: 8.8 points per $100 against 4.7.

Specifications

SpecMSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Gaming Trio OCPowerColor Hellhound Spectral White Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB
Video memory16 GB16 GB
Board power360 W304 W (better)
Length360 mm330 mm (better)
Power connector12V-2x6 (16-pin)PCIe 8-pin
BrandNvidiaAMD
Released20252025
Typical price$1,650$760 (better)

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