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Radeon 8050S vs Radeon 780M

Radeon 8050S
VS
Radeon 780M
AMD Radeon 8050S
Strix Halo
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older Radeon 780M that utilizes 12 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 780M over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 3.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 16 FPS
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 4.3 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 32K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8050S
vs
Radeon 780M

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
127
68
59
38
52
26
22
11
The Witcher 3
113
94
60
33
26
26
13
-
Counter-Strike 2
178
124
88
47
44
31
21
9
Far Cry 6
98
89
64
34
39
29
21
10
Hogwarts Legacy
65
57
40
21
22
15
11
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
89
81
54
35
34
29
19
12
Ghost of Tsushima
71
58
41
19
21
15
10
-
Cyberpunk 2077
67
60
33
17
19
20
10
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
118
103
71
36
36
31
20
9
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 103 33
1080p Ultra 82 25
1440p Ultra 57 16
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 +220%
8517
Radeon 780M
2661
Time Spy 9171 2787
Solar Bay 41110 11525
Port Royal 5181 1579
Fire Strike 24607 7885
Wild Life Extreme 18225 5305
Night Raid 98347 33367
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8050S +148%
81081
Radeon 780M
32713
Background Blur 201.1 img/sec 86.4 img/sec
Face Detection 104.8 img/sec 35.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.03 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.37 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec 1.41 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.41 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 327.5 Gpixels/sec 132.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12215.6 FPS 4470.7 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
Radeon 8050S +143%
16451
Radeon 780M
6762
G2D Mark 1125 885
DirectX 11 149 FPS 65 FPS
DirectX 12 70 FPS 30 FPS
GPU Compute 7622 Ops/s 3577 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 203 & 12072 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 8050S +353%
1188.98
Radeon 780M
262.43
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 3 & 182 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 8050S
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Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL27852
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL23850
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
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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 +100%
18145
Radeon 780M
9091
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 8050S +64%
22099
Radeon 780M
13510
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8050S +119%
14884
Radeon 780M
6786
Image Classification (SP) 9259 3860
Image Segmentation (HP) 11219 5435
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19775 10580
Face Detection (HP) 31987 12855
Pose Estimation (Q) 62399 34716
Text Classification (SP) 3757 2578
Machine Translation (HP) 6121 3897
Object Detection (SP) 6979 3078
Depth Estimation (Q) 35735 14989
Style Transfer (SP) 129996 78608
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Radeon 780M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 4, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Strix Halo Phoenix
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Successor - - Radeon 8050S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U 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		 - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more
Laptop GPU ranking (37th and 99th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 800 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 2700-2800 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 12
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 12
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 86-90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 130-134 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +167%
11.5 TFLOPS
Radeon 780M
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 55 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 178 mm²
Transistor Count - 25.4 billion
Transistor Density - 142.7 MTr/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 2.1
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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12 (52.2%)
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Total votes: 23

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