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AMD Radeon 8060S vs Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)

Radeon 8060S
VS
Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
Custom

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core) that utilizes 512 pipelines and 4096 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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

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 M4 Max GPU (32-core) over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • 15% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 12.9 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
  • Performs better (up to 26%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 60% more shading units (4096 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8060S
vs
M4 Max GPU (32-core)

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
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Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 -
1080p Ultra 90 -
1440p Ultra 63 -
4K Ultra 34 -
Margin of Error Low 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
Time Spy 10038 -
Solar Bay 47180 50957
Port Royal 5546 -
Fire Strike 26807 -
Wild Life Extreme 19262 30044
Night Raid 101008 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 174.8 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 112 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 4.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 6.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 4.69 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 0.98 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 352.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 14254.6 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
G2D Mark 1170 -
DirectX 11 157 FPS -
DirectX 12 84 FPS -
GPU Compute 9041 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 1290 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 8060S
1349.35
M4 Max GPU (32-core) +229%
4437.57
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 113 & 183 samples
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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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 11176 8624
Image Segmentation (HP) 14027 20392
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27198 21752
Face Detection (HP) 40613 34099
Pose Estimation (Q) 92878 77846
Text Classification (SP) 4158 2993
Machine Translation (HP) 6473 5658
Object Detection (SP) 7431 7933
Depth Estimation (Q) 41825 37622
Style Transfer (SP) 190221 173882
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 October 30, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Strix Halo Custom
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - Apple M4 Max (14-Core) 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		 - Apple M4 Max (14-Core)
Laptop GPU ranking (24th and 18th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1578 MHz
Shading Units 2560 4096
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 256
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 128
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 512
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 40 -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 186 GPixel/s 202 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 404 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8060S +15%
14.8 TFLOPS
M4 Max GPU (32-core)
12.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 55 W 51 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 8533 MHz
Bus - 384-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

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

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
27 (57.4%)
20 (42.6%)
Total votes: 47

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Pavan K February 26, 2025 at 01:48 AM
Hello, There seems to be an error on the GPU comparison. The 8060s igpu should have around 15 tflops but it shows 29tflops. Pls check.
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Serhii February 26, 2025 at 07:02 AM
Check Wiki, it says 29696 gflops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDNA_3
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