AMD Radeon 8050S vs Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
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

Key distinctions and advantages of Arc iGPU (4-Cores) over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • 5.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 2 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 16K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (2048 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

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 High

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
Time Spy 9171 -
Solar Bay 41110 -
Port Royal 5181 -
Fire Strike 24607 -
Wild Life Extreme 18225 -
Night Raid 98347 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8050S +397%
81081
Background Blur 201.1 img/sec 37.6 img/sec
Face Detection 104.8 img/sec 17.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.37 Gpixels/sec 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 327.5 Gpixels/sec 60 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12215.6 FPS 3695.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 1126 -
DirectX 11 149 FPS -
DirectX 12 70 FPS -
GPU Compute 7649 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 189 samples

Blender

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

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
Radeon 8050S +381%
18145
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 8050S +329%
22099
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8050S +427%
14884
Image Classification (SP) 9259 2902
Image Segmentation (HP) 11219 5473
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19775 2967
Face Detection (HP) 31987 6068
Pose Estimation (Q) 62399 8220
Text Classification (SP) 3757 609
Machine Translation (HP) 6121 1146
Object Detection (SP) 6979 2766
Depth Estimation (Q) 35735 6405
Style Transfer (SP) 129996 26796
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Strix Halo -
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - Radeon 740M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 490
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
- Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225U
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255U
- and 12 more
Laptop GPU ranking (36th and 97th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1750-2000 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 64
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 4
L1 Cache - 768KB shared
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 GPixel/s 28-32 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 56-64 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +475%
11.5 TFLOPS
1.8-2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
TGP 55 W 14 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
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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