AMD Radeon 8060S vs GeForce RTX 3050
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AMD Radeon 8060S
Strix Halo
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 8060S with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 3 years older GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8060S
- Performs significantly better (up to 55%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 50% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 42 FPS
- 63% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.8 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 40% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (93K vs 67K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
- Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 135 79 62 40 |
92 53 43 26 |
| The Witcher 3 | 124 104 70 37 |
90 70 49 24 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 195 137 95 50 |
139 101 72 31 |
| Far Cry 6 | 108 95 69 40 |
76 66 49 25 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 59 46 20 |
49 38 30 13 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 97 90 60 37 |
59 49 35 22 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 65 43 25 |
46 35 28 15 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 75 65 39 17 |
48 45 26 11 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 132 116 79 37 |
80 73 49 25 |
| 1080p High | 113 | 75 |
| 1080p Ultra | 90 | 59 |
| 1440p Ultra | 63 | 42 |
| 4K Ultra | 34 | 21 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10038 | 6235 |
| Solar Bay | 47180 | 30191 |
| Port Royal | 5546 | 3546 |
| Fire Strike | 26807 | 15967 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19262 | 12795 |
| Night Raid | 101008 | 74854 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 232.1 img/sec | 110.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 122.5 img/sec | 64.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.92 Gpixels/sec | 2.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.07 Gpixels/sec | 3.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.49 Gpixels/sec | 2.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 0.81 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 396.3 Gpixels/sec | 270.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13016.5 FPS | 9339.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1170 | 916 |
| DirectX 11 | 157 FPS | 90 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | 59 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9041 Ops/s | 6415 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8060S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitry | Cinebench 2024 | 4722 |
| 📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitry | Steel Nomad Light | 6237 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 11176 | 4958 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14027 | 12747 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27198 | 9816 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40613 | 22467 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 92878 | 41362 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4158 | 2563 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6473 | 3721 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7431 | 5929 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 41825 | 18361 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 190221 | 84665 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8060S and GeForce RTX 3050General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 27, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $249 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or above | - Intel Core i5 12400 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 |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#24th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#70th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 1552 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 80 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 20 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 80 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 20 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 186 GPixel/s | 57 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 464 GTexel/s | 142 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 55 W | 130 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | - | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | - | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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