AMD Radeon 8040S vs Adreno X2-85
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AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
Adreno X2-85
Adreno X2
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 9 months newer Adreno X2-85 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
- Performs better (up to 35%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-85
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- 23% higher maximum theoretical performance (7 vs 5.7 TFLOPS)
- Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 76 40 31 17 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 53 44 26 14 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 84 60 39 15 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 61 49 35 16 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 33 26 20 10 |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 49 41 31 15 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 33 25 18 10 |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 32 29 17 - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 65 55 32 17 |
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| 1080p High | 54 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 41 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 28 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 13 | - |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 1403 |
| Solar Bay | - | 14961 |
| Port Royal | - | 735 |
| Fire Strike | - | 7510 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 6989 |
| Night Raid | - | 24606 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 106.8 img/sec | - |
| Face Detection | 43.8 img/sec | - |
| Horizon Detection | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.07 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Feature Matching | 0.5 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Stereo Matching | 163 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Particle Physics | 5820.4 FPS | - |
| API | OpenCL | - |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1052 | 655 |
| DirectX 11 | 80 FPS | 45 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | 23 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5138 Ops/s | 2523 Ops/s |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Adreno X2-85General
| Vendor | Amd | Qualcomm |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | September 25, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Adreno X2 |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | Adreno X2 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop | - Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-84-100) |
Laptop GPU ranking (75th and 50th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 1350-1700 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 12 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 86-109 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 179 GTexel/s | 173-218 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | IGP |
| TGP | 55 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 220 mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | No |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4 |
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