AMD Radeon 8050S vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 4 years and 5 months older Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) that utilizes 96 pipelines and 768 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 Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 9.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 8.1x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 7 FPS
  • 4.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 2.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 4.7x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 17K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
127
68
59
38
21
11
-
-
The Witcher 3
113
94
60
33
12
11
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
178
124
88
47
19
12
9
-
Far Cry 6
98
89
64
34
14
11
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
65
57
40
21
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
89
81
54
35
14
12
10
-
Ghost of Tsushima
71
58
41
19
11
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
67
60
33
17
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
118
103
71
36
15
13
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 103 14
1080p Ultra 82 10
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
Time Spy 9171 1282
Solar Bay 41110 -
Port Royal 5181 -
Fire Strike 24607 4411
Wild Life Extreme 18225 3119
Night Raid 98347 14097
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 201.1 img/sec 34.5 img/sec
Face Detection 104.8 img/sec 27.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.37 Gpixels/sec 1.11 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec 0.39 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 327.5 Gpixels/sec 55.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12215.6 FPS 3061.7 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

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 8050S
No benchmark results yet
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-25 -> sevensraysGeekBench16620
📘 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondrajuGeekBench15810

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 1428
Image Segmentation (HP) 11219 2420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19775 1551
Face Detection (HP) 31987 3685
Pose Estimation (Q) 62399 6255
Text Classification (SP) 3757 938
Machine Translation (HP) 6121 1028
Object Detection (SP) 6979 1581
Depth Estimation (Q) 35735 4305
Style Transfer (SP) 129996 26119
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 August 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Strix Halo Tiger Lake GT2
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - Intel Core i7 1160G7 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
- AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
- Intel Core 7 250H
- Intel Core 9 270H
- Intel Core 7 150U
- Intel Core i7 13705H
- Intel Core i9 13905H
- Intel Core i7 1355U
- Intel Core i7 1365U
- Intel Core i7 1360P
- and 23 more
Laptop GPU ranking (35th and 123rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 950-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 96
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 GPixel/s 23-37 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 46-74 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +379%
11.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
TGP 55 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 146 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size - System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock - System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed - System RAM Dependent
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a -

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