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AMD Radeon 8050S vs Adreno X2-90

Radeon 8050S
VS
Adreno X2-90
AMD Radeon 8050S
Strix Halo
Adreno X2-90
Adreno X2

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 9 months newer Adreno X2-90 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X2-90 over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 66%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 51% higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 7.6 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-90
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8050S
vs
Adreno X2-90

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
127
68
59
38
 -
The Witcher 3
113
94
60
33
 -
Counter-Strike 2
178
124
88
47
 -
Far Cry 6
98
89
64
34
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
65
57
40
21
 -
CoD: Modern Warfare III
89
81
54
35
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
71
58
41
19
 -
Cyberpunk 2077
67
60
33
17
 -
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
118
103
71
36
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 103 -
1080p Ultra 82 -
1440p Ultra 57 -
4K Ultra 31 -
Margin of Error Medium Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon 8050S +66%
8517
Adreno X2-90
5135
Time Spy 9171 3644
Solar Bay 41110 24178
Port Royal 5181 1578
Fire Strike 24607 10109
Wild Life Extreme 18225 10017
Night Raid 98347 57060
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 201.1 img/sec -
Face Detection 104.8 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 2.53 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 3.37 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 327.5 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 12215.6 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 8050S +119%
16451
Adreno X2-90
7506
G2D Mark 1125 604
DirectX 11 149 FPS 58 FPS
DirectX 12 70 FPS 30 FPS
GPU Compute 7622 Ops/s 3552 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 203 & 76 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 3 samples
Add your GPU benchmark result

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 9259 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 11219 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19775 -
Face Detection (HP) 31987 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 62399 -
Text Classification (SP) 3757 -
Machine Translation (HP) 6121 -
Object Detection (SP) 6979 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 35735 -
Style Transfer (SP) 129996 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Adreno X2-90

General

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 4050 Laptop - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 485
- AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 490
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390		 - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (36th and 35th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1700-1850 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 12
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 GPixel/s 109-118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 218-237 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +51%
11.5 TFLOPS
Adreno X2-90
7-7.6 TFLOPS

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 - 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Radeon 8050S
n/a
Adreno X2-90
228 GB/s

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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