AMD Radeon 8060S vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 10 months newer Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) that utilizes 160 pipelines and 1280 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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TGP / Version
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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 M5 GPU (10-Core) over Radeon 8060S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 84%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 4.1 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 23% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 75K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2560 vs 1280)
Reasons to consider the Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

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
Time Spy 10038 -
Solar Bay 47180 24536
Port Royal 5546 -
Fire Strike 26807 -
Wild Life Extreme 19262 12278
Night Raid 101008 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
93515
Background Blur 232.1 img/sec 155.7 img/sec
Face Detection 122.5 img/sec 178.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.92 Gpixels/sec 2.22 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.07 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.49 Gpixels/sec 5.8 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 0.95 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 396.3 Gpixels/sec 190.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13016.5 FPS 6579.1 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

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
1349.35
2022.33
Sources: Blender [9], [10]113 & 135 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 8060S
No benchmark results yet
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-01-03 -> RennsportGeekBench48688

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
22565
GB6 ML Half Precision
30098
GB6 ML Quantized
18100
23572
Image Classification (SP) 11176 6348
Image Segmentation (HP) 14027 16813
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27198 30322
Face Detection (HP) 40613 34387
Pose Estimation (Q) 92878 111591
Text Classification (SP) 4158 2319
Machine Translation (HP) 6473 5555
Object Detection (SP) 7431 6450
Depth Estimation (Q) 41825 53195
Style Transfer (SP) 190221 82314
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 M5 GPU (10-Core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 October 15, 2025
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 - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above - Apple M5 (10-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 M5 (10-Core)
Laptop GPU ranking (24th and 43rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz -
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1620 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1280
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 160
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 65 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 130 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8060S +261%
14.8 TFLOPS
4.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 55 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Transistor Count - 28 billion
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 9600 MHz
Bus - 128-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 -

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