AMD Radeon 8040S vs Nvidia N1 (16SM)
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AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
Nvidia N1 (16SM)
GB20B
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months newer Nvidia N1 (16SM) that utilizes 16 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1 (16SM)
- 74% higher maximum theoretical performance (9.9 vs 5.7 TFLOPS)
- 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 |
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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
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 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 80 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 5138 Ops/s | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Nvidia N1 (16SM)General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | June 1, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Blackwell (N1x) |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GB20B |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 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 18th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 2418 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 24 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 50MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 58 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 179 GTexel/s | 310 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Bus | - | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 12.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | - |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | - |
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