Radeon 8050S vs Radeon 8040S

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8050S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the Radeon 8040S that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 8040S over Radeon 8050S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8050S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 89%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 28 FPS
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (11.5 vs 5.7 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 35K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
127
68
59
38
76
40
31
17
The Witcher 3
113
94
60
33
53
44
26
14
Counter-Strike 2
178
124
88
47
84
60
39
15
Far Cry 6
98
89
64
34
61
49
35
16
Hogwarts Legacy
65
57
40
21
33
26
20
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
89
81
54
35
49
41
31
15
Ghost of Tsushima
71
58
41
19
33
25
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077
67
60
33
17
32
29
17
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
118
103
71
36
65
55
32
17
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 103 54
1080p Ultra 82 41
1440p Ultra 57 28
4K Ultra 31 13
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
8517
Time Spy 9171 -
Solar Bay 41110 -
Port Royal 5181 -
Fire Strike 24607 -
Wild Life Extreme 18225 -
Night Raid 98347 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8050S +125%
81081
35976
Background Blur 201.1 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Face Detection 104.8 img/sec 43.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.12 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.37 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 0.5 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 327.5 Gpixels/sec 163 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12215.6 FPS 5820.4 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
16451
10578
G2D Mark 1125 1052
DirectX 11 149 FPS 80 FPS
DirectX 12 70 FPS 47 FPS
GPU Compute 7622 Ops/s 5138 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 203 & 6 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 8050S +216%
1188.98
376.14
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 3 & 1 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
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 -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8040S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Strix Halo Strix Halo
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 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 AI Max PRO 480
- AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380
Laptop GPU ranking (37th and 77th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 2048 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 16
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 16
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 179 GPixel/s 90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 358 GTexel/s 179 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8050S +102%
11.5 TFLOPS
5.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 55 W 55 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 308 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

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

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