AMD Radeon 8050S vs Nvidia N1X (40SM)
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AMD Radeon 8050S
Strix Halo
Nvidia N1X (40SM)
GB20B
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months newer Nvidia N1X (40SM) that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1X (40SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (40SM)
- 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (24.8 vs 11.5 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 2.5x more shading units (5120 vs 2048)
- Features 160 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 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 113 94 60 33 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 178 124 88 47 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 98 89 64 34 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 65 57 40 21 |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 89 81 54 35 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 71 58 41 19 |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 67 60 33 17 |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 118 103 71 36 |
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| 1080p High | 103 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 82 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 57 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 31 | - |
| Margin of Error | Medium | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9171 | - |
| Solar Bay | 41110 | - |
| Port Royal | 5181 | - |
| Fire Strike | 24607 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 18225 | - |
| Night Raid | 98347 | - |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
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 | - |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1125 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 149 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 70 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 7622 Ops/s | - |
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 | - |
| 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 | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Nvidia N1X (40SM)General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | June 1, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Blackwell (N1x) |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GB20B |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop | - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) 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 place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1665 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 2418 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 32 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 160 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 24MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 179 GPixel/s | 97 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 358 GTexel/s | 387 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 55 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 173.6 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 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 12.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | - |
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