AMD Radeon 8040S vs Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
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AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core) that utilizes 320 pipelines and 2560 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 Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 80%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 42% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.1 vs 5.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Achieves 95% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (70K vs 35K)
- Has 2.5x more shading units (2560 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 | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 33418 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 19535 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 106.8 img/sec | 125.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 43.8 img/sec | 80 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | 2.88 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 4.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.07 Gpixels/sec | 2.98 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.5 Gpixels/sec | 0.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 163 Gpixels/sec | 235 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5820.4 FPS | 9516.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1052 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 80 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 5138 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 8046 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 15443 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 20807 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 30860 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 56783 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2888 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 6167 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 7592 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 33607 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 126726 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | October 29, 2024 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above | - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480 - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 |
- Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (76th and 37th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 1578 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 320 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 126 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 179 GTexel/s | 252 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | 55 W | 26 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 8533 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | - |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | - |
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