AMD Radeon 8040S vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
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AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month older GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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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
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
- Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- 25% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 5.7 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Achieves 63% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 35K)
- Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)
- Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 76 40 31 17 |
75 44 34 21 |
| The Witcher 3 | 53 44 26 14 |
68 53 38 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 84 60 39 15 |
115 80 54 23 |
| Far Cry 6 | 61 49 35 16 |
60 52 40 17 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 33 26 20 10 |
37 28 23 12 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 49 41 31 15 |
48 37 27 16 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 33 25 18 10 |
37 28 18 10 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 32 29 17 - |
36 35 19 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 65 55 32 17 |
66 62 39 18 |
| 1080p High | 54 | 60 |
| 1080p Ultra | 41 | 47 |
| 1440p Ultra | 28 | 32 |
| 4K Ultra | 13 | 16 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 4884 |
| Solar Bay | - | 21596 |
| Port Royal | - | 552 |
| Fire Strike | - | 12571 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 9400 |
| Night Raid | - | 53685 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 106.8 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 43.8 img/sec | 57.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.07 Gpixels/sec | 2.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.5 Gpixels/sec | 0.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 163 Gpixels/sec | 256.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5820.4 FPS | 7465.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1052 | 493 |
| DirectX 11 | 80 FPS | 71 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | 46 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5138 Ops/s | 3868 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8040S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 61418 |
| 📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer) | Cinebench 2024 | 3654 |
| 📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_Aggarwal | Steel Nomad Light | 5735 |
| 📘 2026-01-26 (rar) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 68364 |
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) | - | 4349 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 11416 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 8973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 18927 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 34631 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2269 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 3539 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 5046 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 15772 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 75260 |
| Framework | - | ONNX |
| Backend | - | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and GeForce RTX 3050 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 1, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GA107 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above | - |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480 - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (77th and 93rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 712-1530 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 42-70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 179 GTexel/s | 68-111 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | 35-95 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 8.7 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 43.5 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | - | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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