AMD Radeon 8050S vs GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
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AMD Radeon 8050S
Strix Halo
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
- Performs better (up to 20%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- Shows 18% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 57 FPS
- 27% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 11.5 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 21% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (97K vs 81K)
- Has 50% more shading units (3072 vs 2048)
- Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 127 68 59 38 |
120 77 66 44 |
| The Witcher 3 | 113 94 60 33 |
141 112 79 42 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 178 124 88 47 |
205 153 110 54 |
| Far Cry 6 | 98 89 64 34 |
103 92 75 43 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 65 57 40 21 |
74 62 45 25 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 89 81 54 35 |
95 85 59 37 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 71 58 41 19 |
74 60 42 23 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 67 60 33 17 |
82 72 42 21 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 118 103 71 36 |
127 116 83 43 |
| 1080p High | 103 | 113 |
| 1080p Ultra | 82 | 92 |
| 1440p Ultra | 57 | 67 |
| 4K Ultra | 31 | 37 |
| Margin of Error | Medium | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9171 | 10397 |
| Solar Bay | 41110 | 45002 |
| Port Royal | 5181 | 5819 |
| Fire Strike | 24607 | 26481 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 18225 | 19820 |
| Night Raid | 98347 | 98330 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 201.1 img/sec | 142.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 104.8 img/sec | 103.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.53 Gpixels/sec | 3.83 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.37 Gpixels/sec | 4.93 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.12 Gpixels/sec | 4.63 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 1.27 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 327.5 Gpixels/sec | 430.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 12215.6 FPS | 13519.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1125 | 731 |
| DirectX 11 | 149 FPS | 155 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 70 FPS | 72 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7622 Ops/s | 6789 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8050S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Viru) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 115610 |
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Viru) | Cinebench 2024 | 10216 |
| 📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 101184 |
| 📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 107583 |
| 📘 2025-11-17 (kritan) | Cinebench 2024 | 10306 |
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) | 9259 | 7421 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 11219 | 19041 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 19775 | 20913 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 31987 | 35464 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 62399 | 67110 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3757 | 3086 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6121 | 4740 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6979 | 8644 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 35735 | 32456 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 129996 | 142039 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and GeForce RTX 4060 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | AD107 (GN21-X4) |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max 485 - AMD Ryzen AI Max 490 - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 485 - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 490 - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 - AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (37th and 43rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 3072 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 96 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 32 | 24 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 96 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 179 GPixel/s | 71-114 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 358 GTexel/s | 141-228 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 156 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 18.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 121.15 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | - | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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