Radeon 8050S vs Radeon 610M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 4 months older Radeon 610M that utilizes 2 pipelines and 128 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 Radeon 610M over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 19.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 19.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 11.4x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 5 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 15.9x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 5K)
  • Has 16x more shading units (2048 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
127
68
59
38
11
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
113
94
60
33
-
Counter-Strike 2
178
124
88
47
16
11
-
-
Far Cry 6
98
89
64
34
9
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
65
57
40
21
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
89
81
54
35
13
11
9
-
Ghost of Tsushima
71
58
41
19
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
67
60
33
17
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
118
103
71
36
-
9
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 103 9
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 +1810%
8517
Time Spy 9171 519
Solar Bay 41110 2068
Port Royal 5181 291
Fire Strike 24607 1745
Wild Life Extreme 18225 998
Night Raid 98347 7335
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8050S +1490%
81081
Background Blur 201.1 img/sec 12 img/sec
Face Detection 104.8 img/sec 6.42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.37 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 327.5 Gpixels/sec 18.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12215.6 FPS 828.6 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
Radeon 8050S +814%
16451
G2D Mark 1125 535
DirectX 11 149 FPS 17 FPS
DirectX 12 70 FPS 7 FPS
GPU Compute 7622 Ops/s 768 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 203 & 194 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 8050S +2404%
1188.98
47.48
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 3 & 47 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 8050S
No benchmark results yet
Radeon 610M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-05 (StarSophia)Steel Nomad Light614

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 +847%
18145
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 8050S +976%
22099
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8050S +847%
14884
Image Classification (SP) 9259 660
Image Segmentation (HP) 11219 627
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19775 2053
Face Detection (HP) 31987 2153
Pose Estimation (Q) 62399 5787
Text Classification (SP) 3757 713
Machine Translation (HP) 6121 1114
Object Detection (SP) 6979 709
Depth Estimation (Q) 35735 3233
Style Transfer (SP) 129996 11091
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Radeon 610M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 October 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Strix Halo Mendocino
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U 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
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
- AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
- and 6 more
Laptop GPU ranking (36th and 125th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1900-2200 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 2
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 2
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 GPixel/s 8-9 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 15-18 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +1817%
11.5 TFLOPS
0.5-0.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 55 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 122 mm²
Transistor Count - 3.4 billion
Transistor Density - 27.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a -

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