Rumour has it that AMD is working on an enthusiast-class Radeon RX 9080 XT GPU. If true, then this is perhaps one of the chipmaker’s first major U-turns on its decision not to compete with NVIDIA in the category.
In a video by popular leakster and rumour monger Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), the channel says that the 9080 XT could ship out with hardware specs that rival NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080 and, quite possibly, the unreleased RX 5080 Super.
Specifically, MLID says that the 9080 XT could be the first RDNA4 card to rock the faster GDDR7 memory, with of 32GB of it, and on a 256-bit memory bus, to boot. Adding on to that, the GPU might also run on a base and boost clock of 3.7GHz and 4GHz, respectively, and could also have a TGP of up to 450W.
Performance-wise, the rumoured 9080 XT could run between 15% and 40% faster than the 9070 XT, although it wasn’t made clear if that’s just with pure rasterisation or with ray tracing factored in.
Again, there isn’t any concrete proof that AMD is actually working on the 9080 XT but to be fair, it does make sense; during Computex 2025, the red chipmaker announced FSR4 “Redstone”, an updated version of its current upscaling technology that will provide Radeon cards (and other non-AMD cards, hopefully) the ability to run path tracing via a new Neural Radiance engine. Who knows, maybe AMD will release this one with a reference shroud too.
