AMD Radeon 8060S vs Adreno X1-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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 Adreno X1-85 over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 4.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 40 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 3.8x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 24K)
  • Has 67% more shading units (2560 vs 1536)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
79
62
40
-
The Witcher 3
124
104
70
37
-
Counter-Strike 2
195
137
95
50
-
Far Cry 6
108
95
69
40
-
Hogwarts Legacy
74
59
46
20
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
97
90
60
37
-
Ghost of Tsushima
80
65
43
25
-
Cyberpunk 2077
75
65
39
17
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
132
116
79
37
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 -
1080p Ultra 90 -
1440p Ultra 63 -
4K Ultra 34 -
Margin of Error Low 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 8060S +376%
9837
Time Spy 10038 1695
Solar Bay 47180 10596
Port Royal 5546 -
Fire Strike 26807 6134
Wild Life Extreme 19262 6152
Night Raid 101008 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8060S +283%
93515
24387
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 4692.5 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 8060S +506%
18072
G2D Mark 1170 518
DirectX 11 157 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 84 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 9041 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1290 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 113 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
Radeon 8060S +936%
22565
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 8060S +829%
30098
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 8060S +892%
18100
Image Classification (SP) 11176 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 14027 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27198 3084
Face Detection (HP) 40613 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 92878 7719
Text Classification (SP) 4158 292
Machine Translation (HP) 6473 1108
Object Detection (SP) 7431 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 41825 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 190221 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Strix Halo Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 392
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (25th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 6
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 40 No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8060S +222%
14.8 TFLOPS
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
TGP 55 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12.2 12.1
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4

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