As per the performance leaks of AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 7900 XTX, OpenCL and Vulkan compute scores in Geekbench 5. The RDNA3 GPU displayed favorable results in the Vulkan benchmark, having similar performance to Nvidia’s RTX 4080. The OpenCL results are not that promising, though Geekbench is not the best indicator of real-world gaming performance. But it does support AMD’s claims that the RX 7900 XTX will compete against the Nvidia RTX 4080. 

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX ran a score of 179,579 in Geekbench 5’s Vulkan benchmark, and 228,647 points in the OpenCL benchmark. This puts the RX 7900 XTX in line with the RTX 4080’s score of 178,105 points in Vulkan, which is 0.8% slower than the 7900 XTX. But the 7900 XTX falls behind the RTX 4080 in the OpenCL benchmark, and here the RTX 4080’s score of 264,482 points is 15.7% faster than the RX 7900 XTX. 

The following 4080 and 4090 scores were taken from a multitude of user uploads to Geekbench 5’s browser, which we then average down to one value. But we had to do this since Geekbench 5 does not have any official RTX 40-series compute benchmark scores available to compare against. 

GPU Model          Vulkan         Open CL      Vulkan Perf Difference   OpenCL Perf Difference        

RX 7900 XTX         1,79,579          228,647                 Baseline                                          Baseline 

RTX 4080               178,105           264,482                 0.8% Slower                                    15.7% Faster 

RTX 4090               203,916           344,806                 14% Faster                                       50% Faster 

The RX 7900 XTX results are not that shocking, as AMD’s recent GPU architectures have rarely been able to match Nvidia’s counterparts in terms of raw compute, that OpenCL measures. On the other hand, gaming workloads have displayed competitive results from the old RX 6000 series, and we are seeing a similar trend here. 

The 7900 XTX’s performance traits in Vulkan are interesting against the RTX 4080. AMD has said previously that the 7900 XTX was not intended to fight against Nvidia’s 4090, but to compete against Nvidia’s runner-up RTX 4080 GPU. It is still not known if this was AMD’s intent, but, the Geekbench 5 Vulkan results we are able to see today back up that statement. 

We won’t have long to wait before we receive our full testing results. AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT will hit on December 13, which is just a week away. So, stay tuned for our official reviews, and we will see how the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT fare against Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and plenty of other GPUs across a wide range of benchmarks.