ASUS - ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC vs AMD - Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC is the clear pick on raw spec strength, leading by 17.0 points on the Mars Score. The margin is wide enough that the underdog only makes sense if its individual strengths line up with what you specifically need.

Pick the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC if you push the hardware — gaming, on-device AI, heavy multitasking — and the extra compute headroom is worth the trade-offs. The biggest gaps in its favor are cuda / stream cores, ray tracing cores, 3dmark time spy, among others.

Pick the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB if you care most about tdp / boost clock. Its strongest claims are tdp, boost clock.

Both ship with comparable vram, so those specs do not separate the two — focus on the differences below.

Bottom line: the ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC is the safer default. The other model is the right choice only when its specific advantages line up with your priorities.